[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-5.1.0-1

[marco atzeri]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2020, 11:09 Takashi Yano, wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 21:02:46 +0100
> Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > New versions 5.1.0-1 of
> >     octave
> >     octave-devel
> >     octave-doc
> > are available in the Cygwin distribution:
>
> After upgrading octave and octave-devel to 5.1.0-1,
> mkoctfile stopped working with error:
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/7.4.0/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
> cannot find -loctinterp
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/7.4.0/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
> cannot find -loctave
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> It seems that option -L/usr/lib/octave/5.1.0, which should be added
> by default, is missing.
>
> If -L option is added manually, it works as expected.
>
> --
> Takashi
>

This is an upstream change, it was a surprise also for me the first time.
You can use pkg-config for a proper settings of LDFLAGS and use it in your
makefiles.
Most forge packages were modified to handle this change.

Regards
Marco

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