Re: GSL in octave

[Marco Atzeri]

On 17/07/2016 21:16, Susi Lehtola wrote:
> On 07/17/2016 02:32 AM, Julien Bect wrote:
> > Hi Susi,
> >
> > I think that the first thing to do, if you hope to get more feedback
> > from people on this list, is to provide a ready-to-test (or
> > easy-to-generate) package tarball.
> >
> > To help you with that, I took the liberty to push on the gsl repo a
> > Makefile that can be used create a package tarball as simply as "make
> > dist" (or "make release" if you also want to create a documentation
> > tarball, but this is mostly useful at release time).  I suggest you
> > should pull this t your own clone.
> >
> > This Makefile is essentially the one written by Carnë and Oliver for
> > other packages, to which I made some minor changes (which, I hope, are
> > correct, but I am no Makefile expert).  The first change adds a
> > src/configure target.  The second one enforces a lowercase package name
> > in tarball filenames; apparently Octave refuses to install
> > GSL-1.2.0.tar.gz.
>
> Thanks!
>
> I created a new test tarball at
> https://jussilehtola.fedorapeople.org/gsl-1.2.0.tar.gz

> Now the configure time checks apply for all the autogenerated functions.
>
>
> I'm not really familiar with how the add-ons are supposed to work. Does
> "pkg build" run configure?

yes, so you should bootstrap before packaging
otherwise configure is not run.

With bootstrap, it builds and  packages fine.

Question:
any way to test the functionality ?

2 (of 2) .m files have no tests.


And the two files itself
  /usr/share/octave/packages/gsl-1.2.0/test_ellint.m
  /usr/share/octave/packages/gsl-1.2.0/test_hyperg.m

are not functional.

Regards
Marco







build and package fine on cygwin 64 bit