Re: Octave in Google Summer of Code 2013 / Low Level I/O

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 28 February 2013 12:18, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Stefan Mahr <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
>>>> @Stefan: Please merge your code into the package and add yourself as a
>>>> maintainer. Let me know when you have committed your changes so we can
>>>> prepare a new release.
>>>>
>>>> We are on the move!
>>>
>>> Hi JPi, hi Andrius,
>>>
>>> merging is done. Compiling on linux and cygwin works. I did not test *bsd.
>>>
>>> With mingw (mxe-octave) only tcp works, all other interfaces fail to
>>> compile. Should be acceptable for now.
>>>
>>>
>>> Stefan
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that the package needs to be boostraped before it can be
>> distributed. This breaks the current version of releasePKG.
>> @Carnë: What would be the procedure with packages like this?
>
> The procedure to release package like this is that the package manager
> runs ./bootstrap first, and then create a tarball of the result. Also,
> remove the "autom4te.cache" directory that may have been generated.
> Whether to also remove the bootstrap and configure.ac/in files from
> the tarball, is up to the package manager (probably we should settle
> on something?).
>
> Carnë

ok, I am modifying releasePKG to run bootstrap and remove the
"autom4te.cache" directory. The other files may help to debug user
problems