[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49503] [mxe-octave] cross-building packages with configure script calling octave itself have issues

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #49, bug #49503 (project octave):

The changes to the buildbot builder were needed to be able to do this last
change.
If you'd revert that change, all cross-building builders would build an
additional native Octave (the "build-octave" package). The ones that create
tarballs (all but the release builders) already build and install a native
Octave of the correct version with the "hg-octave-dist" target. So they don't
need to build it again as a build tool (with a different and maybe conflicting
configuration).
The change you pushed to the buildbot configuration explicitly disables
building the "build-octave" package for these builders.
So changing the default in the MXE Octave configuration doesn't have an effect
on them.

John Donoghue proposed to make that change in comment #38. I agree that this
is a good change since many developers (incl. me) probably ignore the warning
about a missing native Octave on their build systems (see bug #59081) or don't
update their installation regularly. 


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