From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 19:34:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3672C1065672 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:34:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from cauchy.math.missouri.edu (cauchy.math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80CC8FC08 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:34:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from laptop3.gateway.2wire.net (cauchy.math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.213]) by cauchy.math.missouri.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7QJ353J031190; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:03:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Message-ID: <48B45373.9090904@math.missouri.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:03:15 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080823 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports , octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, maho@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Proposed octave-forge for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:34:41 -0000 I have now created a working octave-forge port for FreeBSD. You can find it at http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen/octave-forge/ Please use the latest version. To make it: cd /usr/ports tar xvfz oct-fg-port-0.4.tar.gz cd math/octave-forge make install clean To delete it: pkg_delete -r octave-forge-base-0.1 It wraps the FreeBSD packaging system around the octave packaging system. This is fairly straightforward, although when things go wrong, they can go very wrong (hence the octave-forge-base port, whose deletion gives one a completely fresh slate). I haven't done a punishing test to make sure that all the subports properly bring in their dependencies, although I have made a lot of effort to see that it does. But if someone has a ready made testbed to check for this, I would really appreciate it if they could test this for me. It is implemented as a meta port. So if any part of octave forge gets updated, it should be fairly straightforward to update that part in the ports system. The only packages I didn't get to build were database, java and jhandles. If someone else could do these for me I would appreciate it. I also did not get octcdf to build, because it requires a newer version of netcdf than FreeBSD currently has in the ports. I haven't done any kind of excessive testing to see whether they run properly. So if people could do that to, I would really appreciate it. All I checked was ode45 (which really was the only reason I wanted octave-forge working on FreeBSD). Unless I get suggestions to the contrary, I'll probably submit it to the FreeBSD project as a PR in a week or so. Stephen