Re: DDDD_to_D.cc.template in gsl package

[Carnë Draug]

On 20 June 2013 10:54, Thomas Weber <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 04:49:37PM +0100, Carnė Draug wrote:
>> On 16 June 2013 16:25, Thomas Weber <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > trying to compile the gsl package from SVN rev 11992, I am hitting an
>> > error about redefinition of a function. It seems that the content of
>> > DDDD_to_D.cc.template is doubled.
>> > Now, this template was checked in in 2011 by Carne (cc'ed). Did
>> > something change recently in Octave or did this indeed fail for the last
>> > 1.5 years with no bug report ever sent?
>> >
>> >         Thomas
>>
>> I wouldn't be surprised if it was failing for the last 1.5 years. This
>> was done with r8745 after this thread [1]. The first time I applied
>> the patch (r8729) I forgot to add the new file. I'm guessing when I
>> applied the patch the second time, it just doubled the content. I just
>> commited (r11993) the fix. Could you please confirm that it's working
>> now?
>
> Yes, it builds. Thanks.
> Next step: where can I find information about releasing a package that
> has (like gsl) .cc files? The instructions at
>         http://octave.sourceforge.net/developers.html
> seem to not generate any configure at all and
>         http://wiki.octave.org/Creating_packages
> is essentially empty.

The idea is that it's done exactly like all the other ones as long as
the Makefile works (see the miscellaneous package for the simplest
example).

Some packages may require a configure script (see the image package
for an example and the gsl seems to). If so, run bootscript (the gsl
still has an autogen.sh that should be renamed bootstrap) first. That
should be it. Each package needs slightly different things to be
released.

Carnë