Re: mxe-octave gnuplot build failure in linux-native build

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

> From: John W. Eaton 
> To: octave-maintainers
> Cc: jwe
> Date: 2016/5/5, Thu 12:07
> Subject: Re: mxe-octave gnuplot build failure in linux-native build
> 
> On 05/04/2016 08:48 PM, tmacchant wrote:
> 
>>  I personally build gnuplot 4.6.7, 5.0.3 and development version.
>>  Therefore I would like to skip building gnuplot because gnuplot is not
>>  related --enable-64 mechanism.
>>  How can I skip a particular building process on mxe-octave for native 
> build?
> 
> You can't without modifying the Makefile.  Probably all you need to do is 
> modify the list of dependencies the default-octave.mk or stable-octave.mk 
> Makefile fragment.
> 
> Except for a few packages (like GCC or fontconfig, I think), mxe-octave 
> isn't really set up to use packages from the system, even when doing native 
> builds.  It's really intended for building Octave and (nearly) all 
> dependencies on systems that don't have up to date dependencies.
> 
> If you want to extend mxe-octave to do something different, then submit 
> patches.
> 
> jwe


OK. I understand the situations.

Thanks!