[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45509] communications-1.2.1 fails during package install in octave-4.0.0

[Gary Keperling]

Follow-up Comment #20, bug #45509 (project octave):

A couple of additional observations. There seems to be a lot of conversation
on the hdf5 web sites regarding configuration issues from recent updates. When
I went back to starting with a clean Centos 6 system, I installed the standard
repository octave ( which I think was 3.8.x). I then installed the packages
control, signal, and communications using that version and everything built
fine.  Then I installed octave 4.0.0 and the toolkits remained from the prior
installation so I had the configuration I wanted.
Then I started with a clean Centos 7 build, installed all the dependencies
that octave 4.0.0 wanted ( ~ 65 installs) and built octave and it seemed to
build fine. Then toolkit control and signal built fine, but communications
gave me the save error I had gotten on earlier attempts.
I did two kluges to get it to build. I unpacked the communications tar and
modified the line in ov-galois.h referencing hid_t which is not defined. I
forced it to be an int. The second change to avoid the invalid argument error
in the later compiles was to edit Makefile.in and force the HDF5_CPPFLAGS and
HDF5_LDFLAGS to be empty. Whatever was being  defined were invalid character
sequences.  Then I re tar the package and pkg install worked perfectly. I have
not tested everything exhaustively to see if anything broke, but initial tests
showed comm functions working fine.

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