Re: [OctDev] My patches for octaveforge pkgs Mingw build

[Michael G. <mic...@gm...>]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Olaf Till <i7...@t-...> wrote:

> I just saw that the same inacceptable change was proposed for the
> linear-algebra package and possibly also (?) for the optiminterp
> package. The same problem should also exist in the packages (not
> included in this patch) control, octgpr, and odepkg. One cannot just
> unconditionally hardcode the lapack library to link to only because
> the Mingw built of Octave can not handle a (hopefully) correct way to
> specify it. These lines in the Makefiles regarding the lapack linkage
> were introduced only recently into these packages after some
> discussion and some thinking.
>

To be honest, I don't think the idea was to integrate the changes as-is.
There has been complaints that Nitzan patches were not available and that
it was a GPL violation. So there they are. Whether you like them or not, or
whether they are "integratable" is not really relevant.

Michael.