Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:03:15 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org>, octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, maho@FreeBSD.org Subject: Proposed octave-forge for FreeBSD Message-ID: <48B45373.9090904@math.missouri.edu>
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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
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