Re: [OctDev] Build errors [was: Re: New release?]

[H. <so...@ha...>]

Hi,
  Sorry about the late reply. So I've been experiencing some problems
build octave-forge, but I've been able to hack around them.

My problems with building fixed, and linear-algebra comes from the
following lines in Makeconf:

%.o: %.c ; $(MKOCTFILE) -c $<
%.o: %.f ; $(MKOCTFILE) -c $<
%.o: %.cc ; $(MKOCTFILE) -c $<
%.oct: %.cc ; $(MKOCTFILE) $<

These appear to overwrite the corresponding rules in the Makefiles in
fixed and linear-algebra. If I remove them I can build fixed, but then I
can't build extra/pdb, signal, image, io, linear-algebra, optim,
specfun, and symbolic. So I just added the lines I removed from Makeconf
to the (bottom of the) Makefiles of the packages that wouldn't build,
and then things got build (and all test passed on Ubuntu).

I'm not an autotools expert so I don't know what the solution is to the
problem.

S=C3=B8ren