[MacPorts] #29919: octave / octave-devel @3.4.2 updated portfile

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#29919: octave / octave-devel @3.4.2 updated portfile
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  Reporter:  lukas.reichlin@…          |       Owner:  michaelld@…           
      Type:  update                    |      Status:  closed                
  Priority:  Normal                    |   Milestone:                        
 Component:  ports                     |     Version:                        
Resolution:  fixed                     |    Keywords:  haspatch              
      Port:  octave-devel              |  
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Comment(by lukas.reichlin@…):

 Thanks. Below you find the jwe's advice on my patched portfile for release
 candidate 1:
 [[BR]]
 {{{
 On 21-Jun-2011, Lukas Reichlin wrote:

 | I've built octave-3.4.2-rc1 successfully on Mac OS X 10.6.7 using a
 | modified version of MacPorts' octave-devel Portfile (attached).
 | I've chosen the +gcc45 option.  I'm able to compile and run
 | successfully my oct-files from the control package.

 Thanks.

 Here are a few comments about the options you are using:

 | configure.args      --without-x \
 |                     --enable-shared \
 |                     --enable-dl \
 |                     --disable-docs \
 |                     --disable-openmp

 Both --enable-shared, --enable-dl, and --disable-openmp are defaults,
 and the --enable-openmp appears to have no effect anyway.

 | ### the following are probably not necessary (except possibly the
 | ### 'cholmod' one), but are included for completion.  Ordering is the
 | ### same as in './configure --help'.
 | configure.args-append \
 |                     --enable-readline \
 |                     --enable-extra-warning-flags \
 |                     --with-qhull \
 |                     --with-z \
 |                     --with-hdf5 \
 |                     --with-fftw3 \
 |                     --with-fftw3f \
 |                     --with-glpk \
 |                     --with-curl \
 |                     --with-blas \
 |                     --with-lapack \
 |                     --with-qrupdate \
 |                     --with-amd \
 |                     --with-camd \
 |                     --with-colamd \
 |                     --with-ccolamd \
 |                     --with-cholmod="-lcholmod -lmetis" \
 |                     --with-cxsparse \
 |                     --with-umfpack \
 |                     --with-arpack

 These are defaults except for the --with-cholmod="-lcholmod -lmetis"
 option, and that should not be used if you are building a binary for
 redistribution since the METIS library is not distributed under terms
 that are GPL compatible.

 | ### the following are probably not necessary, but are included for
 | ### completion.
 | # octave uses a number of other ports to create sources from template:
 | # perl, gawk, gsed, flex, bison, texinfo.  python is not used if perl
 | # is available, so clear it out.  FLTK doesn't work as of 1.3.x-r7794,
 | # so disable it entirely (via "no" here and a configure patch).
 | configure.perl      ${prefix}/bin/perl
 | configure.python    ' '
 | configure.awk       ${prefix}/bin/gawk
 | configure.env-append SED="${prefix}/bin/gsed" \
 |                      TEXI2DVI="${prefix}/bin/texi2dvi" \
 |                      TEXI2PDF="${prefix}/bin/texi2pdf" \
 |                      FLTK_CONFIG=no

 Except for FLTK_CONFIG=no the configure script should find these, so
 there should be no need to specify them.

 | variant debug description {Produce debugging information in compiled
 code} {
 |     configure.cflags-delete    -O2
 |     configure.cxxflags-delete  -O2
 |     configure.fflags-delete    -O2
 |     configure.fcflags-delete   -O2
 |     configure.f90flags-delete  -O2
 |     configure.objcflags-delete -O2
 |     configure.cflags-append    -g3 -O0
 |     configure.cxxflags-append  -g3 -O0
 |     configure.fcflags-append   -g3 -O0
 |     configure.f90flags-append  -g3 -O0
 |     configure.fflags-append    -g3 -O0
 |     configure.objcflags-append -g3 -O0
 | }

 What is the effect of this?  If you are disabling compiler
 optimization when building Octave, then you are really making it much
 slower.  To get good performance, Octave depends heavily on code
 inlining and other compiler optimizations which I think will not
 happen with -O0.

 jwe
 }}}

 I don't know of any RSS feeds for octave, but there are two mailing lists
 (help and maintainers) you may want to subscribe to:[[BR]]
 [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/archive.html][[BR]]

 I've got four questions/remarks:[[BR]]
 1. Is there a reason why you use the patch-configure.diff patchfile even
 when the FLTK version is chosen?[[BR]]
 2. Is it possible to create a (default) variant for the gnuplot graphics
 toolkit such that one can choose between FLTK and gnuplot?[[BR]]
 3. When will octave 3.4 become "octave" instead of "octave-devel"?[[BR]]
 4. There are many outdated octave packages available from MacPorts. One
 could use the new pkg command within octave, e.g.[[BR]]

 {{{
 pkg install -forge odepkg
 }}}

 Regards
 Lukas

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