Re: GSL in octave

[Marco Atzeri]

On 18/07/2016 01:55, Susi Lehtola wrote:
> On 07/17/2016 02:02 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Any reason why the makefiles don't do this..?

No idea. I guess the expected sequence from "pkg build"
is configure and than make.

Having make calling bootstrap to create configure
seems cumbersome.

> > 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.
>
> I don't think so, looks like nobody has ever bothered to write tests.

Thanks for the confirmation