Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] [OctDev] secs1d needs bim

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

* c. <carlo.defalco@gmail.com> [2012-06-05 20:35]:

> gmsh is actually just an optional dependency of msh which is needed
> only by two functions which call it via a "system ()" call.
> 
> If gmsh causes so much trouble I can just change those functions so
> that they check whether a gmsh binary is available and give a warning
> if it isn't.
> 
> or, as an alternative, you could simply patch msh on debian removing
> the two functions that require gmsh.

Please, change the functions as you suggest above.  It is much better
that the changes are done upstream instead of been done via
Debian-specific patches.

Thanks,

Rafael