[Plplot-devel] octave is broken by recent changes

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

Fresh checkout today at 17:09 UTC (there have been two commits
since, but they are only concerned with docbook).

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/plplot_at --with-double --enable-dyndrivers
--enable-octave --enable-gnome --enable-ntk --enable-java
--with-www-user=airwin > & ! configure.out

gives the following message:

checking for octave... yes
error: structure has no member localoctfiledir'
error: evaluating expression
error: evaluating argument list element number 2
error: evaluating index expression near line 2, column 9

Although this message says error, the configuration continued without
problems afterward, and I was also able to build and install everything
without any obvious error message.

However, later I ran plplot-test.sh in the installed examples area and there
were severe octave problems.  I therefore looked closer at the make install
output, and I found this command was executed:

/usr/bin/install -c plplot_octave-libdir.oct \
  /usr/local/plplot_at//plplot_octave.oct

So clearly, plplot_octave.oct is being installed in the wrong place (probably
something to do with the above configuration error message).

Rafael, if you cannot confirm the configure error message, please try again
using octave-2.0.16.92-7 from Debian woody.  It is probably best to always
check your changes with that version since Joao has stated within the last
few months that it is important to continue support for octave-2.0.16.

Alan
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Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and
Analysis (www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca) and the PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org).

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