Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net> writes: > * 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. Or maybe better, we could patch it so that it tells to install liboctave-dev if /usr/bin/mkoctfile is not found. What do you think? -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Developer `. `' http://www.dynare.org/sebastien `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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