From help-request at octave dot org Sat Jul  3 11:07:49 2004
Subject: Re: Octave-Forge make failure under Red Hat 9
From: Paul Thomas <paulthomas2 at wanadoo dot fr>
To: Przemek Klosowski <przemek at jazz dot ncnr dot nist dot gov>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 18:06:52 +0200

Przemek Klosowski wrote:

>   According to Julius Smith <jos at ccrma dot stanford dot edu> (on 06/24/04):
>
>   > It is interesting that both of the current make failures in octave-forge 
>   > under Red Hat 9 were due to the Communications Toolbox.  The maintainers of 
>   > this toolbox apparently do not bother to try compiling their project before 
>   > submitting it to octave-forge.  I find it hard to believe these are 
>   > platform-specific bugs.
>
>If the maintainters were indeed that delinquent, we'd have no choice
>but to send them to bed without supper.  I doubt, however, that it is
>the case here: you seem to assume that your locally installed toolchain 
>is working fine, but at the same time you have reported mysterious and
>sometimes irreproducible compilation errors (in GCC and TeX).
>
>For the sake of the young readers here, please indulge this little
>pontification. I found it works well for me to err on the side of
>giving the benefit of the doubt to others when passing out the
>blame. Most of the time, even if it seems to me that I am right and
>others are wrong, I try to tone down what I am saying: many a time I
>managed not to come out as an idiot by forcing myself to hedge my
>statements. The difference between saying "maintainers [..] apparently
>do not bother to try" and "I wonder why it didn't work for me" might
>count if our assumptions turn out to be wrong.
>
>In this case, I'd run some hardware tests, and check and report the
>versions of programs in my toolchain.
>
>	    p
>
>  
>
I have to second this - my Octave-Forge build under RH9 worked so 
flawlessly that I thought that it had gone wrong.  I had to check that, 
all of a sudden, I had sparse matrices  before I was convinced that all 
was well.

Paul T

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