Re: rpms/octave/FC-4 .cvsignore, 1.5, 1.6 octave.spec, 1.27, 1.28 sources, 1.5, 1.6

[Quentin Spencer <qspencer ieee org>]

Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:45:32 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote:
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> > Author: qspencer
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> > Update of /cvs/extras/rpms/octave/FC-4
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> > @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
> > Group:          Development/Libraries
> > Requires:       %{name} = %{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}
> > Requires:       readline-devel fftw-devel hdf5-devel zlib-devel
> > -Requires:       lapack-devel blas-devel
> > +Requires:       lapack-devel blas-devel gcc-c++
> >    
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> *sigh*  Why? So, something like gcc42-c++ would no longer 
> be sufficient? There's nothing in this -devel package which
> requires gcc-c++ to be present.
>  

I added this because octave-devel contains a script called mkoctfile 
that is used to compile dynamically loadable modules for octave. 
mkoctfile is basically a wrapper around g++, so it breaks if g++ is not 
present on the system, and it is the primary reason for installing 
octave-devel; octave-devel is not very useful without it. However, I 
recently discovered that it is possible to install octave-devel and all 
of its dependencies without installing any compilers, so I added this. 
If I have a minimal system with octave on it but no compilers, and I 
decide to write a module in c++, I'd like to yum install octave-devel 
and know that the mkoctfile script will work, which wasn't the case before.

-Quentin