[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#736392: octave-plplot: FTBFS with Octave 3.8
Package: octave-plplot
Version: 5.9.9-5+b1
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream
Justification: fails to build from source
Control: block 735557 by -1
The current version of the plplot package FTBFS when built against the
octave package 3.8.0-2, currently in experimental. This will block the
transition of octave 3.6 -> 3.8, as required in Bug#735557.
This problem with the upstream sources of plplot happens because there
was a change in the header file version.h of Octave that triggered a bug
in SWIG [1], the wrapper used for generating the Octave binding for
PLplot. The SWIG developpers have fixed this bug in Git [2] and
announced that this fix will be included in the next release [3]. I
suppose that a simple recompilation of plplot against the forthcoming
release of SWIG will fix the present bug.
Rafael
[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/swig/bugs/1353/
[2] https://github.com/swig/swig/commit/5b167cc12daf9ea275c17fedaefc975450613ab2.patch
[3] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=31845761
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'stable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.10-rc7-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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