[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41296] build mkoctfile and octave-config as executables on all platforms

[Mike Miller]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41296>

                 Summary: build mkoctfile and octave-config as executables on
all platforms
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mtmiller
            Submitted on: Tue 21 Jan 2014 10:41:34 PM EST
                Category: Configuration and Build System
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: Patch Submitted
             Assigned to: mtmiller
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

I am pretty sure this has been brought up before but not yet addressed. I
would like to modify the src directory to build mkoctfile and octave-config as
executables unconditionally. We currently have to maintain two independent
implementations for these programs, simply because we can do shell scripts on
Unixy systems but not on Windows. If we have to do executables on Windows,
then we might as well only maintain the C++ implementations.

This is related to bug #41249, the mkoctfile and pkg commands are currently
broken for 3.8.0 on cygwin.

Attached changeset removes the conditional and builds the mkoctfile and
octave-config executables on all systems. Works for me on Debian. I made this
on the default branch, but I think this change should be suitable for
gui-release, let me know what you think.

I have to note that I have not gone through all of the options and variables
in these programs to ensure that they match up perfectly between the two
implementations.




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