[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#744244: octave: missing function "dispatch" causes configure to fail

[Mike Miller <mtmiller@debian.org>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 21:45:11 +0200, Winfried Boxleitner wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Mike Miller wrote:
>> The correct resolution should be removal of the fixed package, whether
>> it was installed locally by you or from the octave-fixed Debian
>> package. Depending on your answer to the above, does removal of the
>> package (and removal of this dispatch.oct file) fix the configuration
>> error for you?
>
> thank you mike!
> the removal of octave-fixed solves the problem for me.
>
> to test I did a reinstall of octave and it went through without a problem.

That's great that it's solved for you. It might still be useful to us
to know how octave-fixed was installed on your system. Did you have a
Debian package installed that you now apt-get removed, or had you
locally installed it with the pkg command in Octave? If it was a deb
package, what was its version?

Thanks,

-- 
mike