Re: mxe-octave stable-octave

[Thorsten Liebig]

Am 03.01.2014 05:03, schrieb John W. Eaton:
> On 01/02/2014 10:51 PM, fgnievinski wrote:
>> Thorsten Liebig wrote
>>> Thanks for the update, I have build the stable version without any
>>> problems.
>>> But I have not had the time to test it on some windows machine.
>>> If anybody is interested, you can download it here:
>>> http://www.openems.de/download/octave/octave-3.8.0.exe
>>
>> It seems that \share\octave\3.8.0-rc2\ doesn't need to be shipped as
>> there's
>> already \share\octave\3.8.0\ ?
>
> This happens because of the way that the distribution is generated. 
> The only way to make one that doesn't possibly contain cruft left over
> from earlier builds with older versions of packages (not just Octave,
> but any dependency) is to use "make clean" and build from scratch.
>
> I think we can do better than this, but it wasn't high on my list of
> priorities.
>
> jwe
>
>
>
I guess that was my mistake? I build rc2 and was to lazy to do a full
cleanup before building 3.8.0 final...
What would be the proper approach to have a clean build regardless of
prior actions??

Thorsten