[Pkg-octave-devel] many build failures of octave packages

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>]

Hi,

Many octave packages are failing to build currently. Are you aware of
that? Should I report the bugs?

List:
octave-audio
octave-combinatorics
octave-control
octave-econometrics
octave-epstk
octave-general
octave-gsl
octave-ident
octave-image
octave-informationtheory
octave-io
octave-irsa
octave-linear-algebra
octave-miscellaneous
octave-octcdf
octave-octgpr
octave-odebvp
octave-optiminterp
octave-outliers
octave-physicalconstants
octave-plot
octave-signal
octave-sockets
octave-specfun
octave-splines
octave-statistics
octave-strings
octave-struct
octave-symbolic
octave-time
octave-zenity
semidef-oct

Example failure (octave-audio):
dh_installdirs -poctave-audio 
mkdir -p /build/user/octave-audio-1.1.0/debian/octave-audio/usr/share/octave/packages   \
                 /build/user/octave-audio-1.1.0/debian/octave-audio/usr/lib/octave/packages
[ -e PKG_ADD ] && mv PKG_ADD PKG_ADD.bak
make: [install-pkg] Error 1 (ignored)
octave3.0 --norc --no-history --silent --no-site-file --eval                    \
                "addpath ('/usr/share/octave/debian/m', '-begin');              \
                 pkg ('prefix', [pwd(),'/debian/octave-audio/usr/share/octave/packages'],       \
                      [pwd(),'/debian/octave-audio/usr/lib/octave/packages']);          \
                 pkg ('local_list', [pwd(),'.']);               \
                 pkg ('global_list', [pwd(),'.']);              \
                 if (glob ('PKG_ADD.bak')),                     \
                     movefile ('PKG_ADD.bak', 'PKG_ADD');       \
                 endif;                                         \
                 pkg -verbose -nodeps install ."
error: `cellfun' undefined near line 29 column 14
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 29, column 44
error: evaluating if command near line 27, column 3
error: called from `fullfile' in file `/usr/share/octave/3.0.1/m/miscellaneous/fullfile.m'
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
error: evaluating static command near line 205, column 3
error: called from `pkg' in file `/usr/share/octave/debian/m/pkg.m'
make: *** [install-pkg] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: /usr/bin/fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2


Thank you,
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