Re: CVS commit: wip/octave

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

Jan Åmydke <jan.smydke%jh-inst.cas.cz@localhost> writes:

> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:33:29 +0200
> Thomas Klausner <thomasklausner%users.sourceforge.net@localhost> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 08:25:19PM +0000, crocusino wrote:
>> > Module name:       wip
>> > Committed by:      crocusino
>> > Date:              Thu Oct 21 20:25:04 UTC 2010
>> > 
>> > Modified Files:
>> >    wip/octave: Makefile PLIST TODO distinfo
>> > Added Files:
>> >    wip/octave: buildlink3.mk octave.mk options.mk
>> >    wip/octave/patches: patch-an
>> > 
>> > Log Message:
>> > Now based on math/octave - but removed all libtool stuff
>> > (works, but needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set - how to get rid of
>> > this?)
>> 
>> Why remove the libtool stuff?
>
> - octave doesn't seem to support libtool natively and it's why there
>   were so many patches in math/octave

You have to deal with it, if you want to bring new Octave rather than
sticking to past.

> - this might have been quite uneasy to maintain and was not set
>   correctly so that octave has failed to work for more than a year
>
> - So removing the libtool stuff from so many patches led to working
>   octave at last, ugh (see PR 42683 for more)

No, it didn't. I still wasn't able to see it working without libtool on
my systems, while I was able to use octave for some time on some of my
systems.

>> But to answer your question:
>> You need to have appropriate "-Wl,-R/path/to/lib" as linker flags.
>>  Thomas
>
> Thank you for this, I hope it helps. However I still believe pkgsrc
> should fix it somehow itself.

We'd better deal with libtool issues rather.


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