Re: GSL in octave

[Julien Bect]

Le 25/07/2016 à 04:03, Carnë Draug a écrit :
> On 17 July 2016 at 10:32, Julien Bect <address@hidden> wrote:
> > [...]
> > 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.
> The issue is probably that the package name is lowercase but the directory
> name inside was uppercase.  There should not be an issue with the actual
> tarball filename.

Yes, its works now.  The package name in DESCRIPTION is sill "GSL" 
(uppercase), but the ${PACKAGE} variable in Makefile is "gsl" (lowercase).


> > First attempt after all this (with Octave 4.0.3 on Debian Jessie): the
> > tarball fails to install with the error message reported below.  The simple
> > truth is, I don't have libgsl-dev installed... but shouldn't this be
> > reported by configure and therefore block the rest of the build process?
> > Anyway, I don't know if this is a problem with the package or with the pkg
> > function in Octave.
> Yes, you are right.  The configure script should check that gsl is available
> and fail if not.  For some packages, but not for gsl, it make sense to just
> disable a set of functions.  This is a problem with the gsl package.

Yes, it's fixed now.  configure fails is gsl or mkoctfile is not found, 
and disables missing special functions.

@++
Julien