Re: 2.9.11?

[Michael Goffioul]

On 4/19/07, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> The biggest remaining issue for a testing release for me is the package
> manager. Till debian, fedora and MSVC builds sign off on the package
> manager I don't think 2.9.11 will be really considered as a testing
> release by the distributions..So it might be nice to check on the
> progress of the use of the package manager for these three, to at least
> avoid any hurried 2.9.12 release if possible.

Concerning MSVC, I could get to a point where the package unpacks and
compiles OK. To achieve this, I had to introduce 2 hacks:
1) "unpack" relies on gunzip/bunzip2: even if MSYS tools are in your PATH,
those decompressing tools are usually simple shell scripts that call gzip/bzip2.
As the command is executed through "system" (so Windows command
prompt), shell scripts cannot be executed. The easy fix is to use "gzip -d"
and "bzip2 -d" instead
2) "configure" script must be called with additional settings, to correctly
define compiler; the command should looks like:
CC=cc-msvc CXX=cc-msvc AR=ar-msvc RANLIB=ranlib-msvc ./configure
Would it be OK to use octave_config_info('config_opts') to achieve this?
(I mean, is it OK for other platforms?)

Besides this, I'm still having problems with file copying; I think this is
related to the use of forward and backward slashes in paths. I'm tempted
to use forward slashes by default under MSVC, but I still have to try it.

Michael.