Re: Using latest sources in MXE-octave

[Michael Goffioul]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 20:19 +0100, Torsten wrote:
> On 12.11.2013 20:01, Rik wrote:
> > What is the best way to use the most recent Octave sources in MXE-octave?
> > I can generate a tar.gz file with 'make dist'.  Should I copy this into the
> > pkg directory of MXE-Octave?  Or is it better to modify src/octave.mk in
> > some way?
>
> I don't know if this is the best way but it works for me:
> Copy the tar.gz file into the pkg directory and update the sha1sum of
> the archive in src/octave.mk. In addition, you have to correct the
> version number of octave in index.html (from 3.7.7 to 3.7.7+).

I wonder, should we just grab the following url,

    http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/archive/@.tar.gz

and add a call to bootstrap plus more dependencies to the MXE recipe?

I wouldn't do that in the regular octave.mk. IMO one should make MXE be able to compile a well-known version of octave in a successful and reproduceable way. However, one could have a different .mk file to compile bleeding edge octave instead (something like octave-dev.mk).

Michael.