From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sun Jan  5 11:14:05 2003
Subject: Re: Octave 2.1.43 available for ftp
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: Andy Adler <adler at site dot uottawa dot ca>,    octave-maintainers mailing list <octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 11:14:01 -0600

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:37:56AM -0600, John W. Eaton wrote:
> I made another mistake in generating the distribution tar file that
> causes trouble for --enable-shared.  You need the attached files plus
> a recent version of autoconf.  Then either unpack a fresh copy of the
> distribution or remove any autom4te directories that you may have
> generated and copy the files as follows:
> 
>   acx_blas.m4 -> top level of the octave source tree
>   acx_lapack.m4 -> top level of the octave source tree
>   mkpkgadd -> scripts subdirectory, make executable
> 
> then run
> 
>   ./autogen.sh
>   configure ...
>   make
> 
> and I think it should work.  These problems in creating the
> distribution file are fixed in CVS now.

Yep, it does work -- Debian's 2.1.43-2 corresponds to those changes, and it
built fine on my i386 as well as alpha, hppa, powerpc, s390. The other
arches should follow over the next few hours.

-- 
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. 
				             -- Niels Bohr