Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] mkoctfile not installed in Wheezy

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2012-12-01 18:31]:

> Juan Pablo Carbajal <ajuanpi+dev@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > > > > On 30 November 2012 10:40, Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@bmrb.wisc.edu> wrote:
> > > > > > On 11/30/2012 9:32 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > > > > > > On 30 November 2012 09:16, JuanPi <ajuanpi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > I am testing octave in Wheezy and after installing from the pkg 
> > > > > > > > manager mkoctfile is not in my system.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It's in the liboctave-dev package. Normally mkoctfile shouldn't be 
> > > > > > > necessary unless you're doing, well, -dev things.
>
> > > > > > Is "pkg install" a "-dev" thing?
>
> Please have a look at /usr/share/doc/octave/README.Debian: it explains 
> why mkoctfile is in the -dev package.

In the thread in help-octave, Juan Pablo pointed out that the command 
"mkoctfile" fails when liboctave-dev is not installed.  I think that 
/usr/share/octave/<version>/m/miscellaneous/mkoctfile.m should be moved 
from octave-common into liboctave-dev, at least for now.

Rafael