Re: [OctDev] Re: Bug#281994: octave-forge: literal @AWK@ in /usr/bin/mex

[Dirk E. <ed...@de...>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:52:12PM -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 08:38:02PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:12:53PM +0000, Christophe Rhodes wrote:
> > > Package: octave-forge
> > > Version: 2004.11.16-1
> > > Severity: normal
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > My copy of /usr/bin/mex seems to have a literal @AWK@ left in it --
> > > which stops mex from working.  Is it the sign of an autoconf gone wrong?
> > > Hand-editing the script to have awk rather than @AWK@ makes it work.
> > 
> > Thanks for the bug report, which I am passing on to the octave-forge
> > hackers. This looks like something we can probably patch rather quickly in
> > both the package and upstream cvs.
> > 
> > Here what my build log shows:
> > 
> > Processing extra/mex/
> > make[3]: Entering directory /tmp/buildd/octave-forge-2004.11.16/extra/mex'
> > mkoctfile -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 -v -c  -o mex.o mex.cc
> > /usr/bin/g++ -c -fPIC -I/usr/include/octave-2.1.63
> > -I/usr/include/octave-2.1.63/
> > octave -mieee-fp -O2 -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 mex.cc -o mex.o
> > cat mex.in | sed -e "s:@MKOCTFILE@:mkoctfile -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21
> > -v:;s:@LIBPATH@:/u
> > sr/lib/octave/2.1.63/site/oct/i386-pc-linux-gnu/octave-forge:g;s:@MEXLIB@:mex.o:
> > g" \
> >         -e 's;@_AWK_@;@AWK@;g' > mex
> > chmod a+x mex
> > 
> > Probably something wrong with configure ...
> 
> This looks like the following patch hasn't been applied yet:
> 
> --- /dev/null   Mon Oct 18 16:08:42 2004
> +++ extra/mex/configure.add     Mon Oct 18 16:26:09 2004
> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
> +
> +AC_PROG_AWK
> +
> 
> That should have been part of the patches in bug #1062239
> (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1062239&group_id=2888&atid=102888)
> but that part seems to be missing.  Maybe someone forgot to 'cvs add configure.add'.

Yes indeed! Thanks for the speedy reply! 

I'll apply by hand and see how it goes.

Dirk

> -Dan
> 
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