* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net> [2014-01-17 16:02]:
[snip] Recompilation of package octave-plplot failed.
This happens because the Octave binding for the PLplot library is built with SWIG and a change in file version.h introduced in 3.8.0 is preventing SWIG of working correctly. The problem is described in this bug report against SWIG:
http://sourceforge.net/p/swig/bugs/1353/ A bug report against Octave has been filed in the Savannah tracker: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41045 and JWE commited a changeset for coping with the problem: http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/b6b6e0dc700eThis changeset does not really fixes the compilation of the plplot package, but would allow the SWIG developers to get around the lacking of OCTAVE_API_VERSION_NUMBER definition in version.h.
In sum, until the problem gets fixed in the swig package, the plplot package will FTBFS with octave 3.8.0.
Rafael