[Pkg-octave-devel] Problem with

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

I just noticed that, on i386, the canonical_host_type in Octave 3.8.2 has 
changed:

   octave:1> octave_config_info ("canonical_host_type")
   ans = i586-pc-linux-gnu

This is preventing many OctaveForge packages that currently have *.oct 
files installed under "i486" of working correctly, since the i486-named 
directories do not get included in the path.  For instance:

   $ ls -d /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/packages/*/i486*
   /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/packages/control-2.6.5/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v49+
   /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/packages/geometry-1.7.0/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v49+
   /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/packages/general-1.3.4/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v49+
   /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/packages/odepkg-0.8.4/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v49+
   /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/packages/signal-1.3.0/i486-pc-linux-gnu-api-v49+

Of course, those packages are now buggy on i386.  What can be done in 
order to fix this problem?

Rafael