[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #63370] Provide configuration/runtime tests for gejsv in svd_driver()

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #63370 (project octave):

I agree with Rik's comment #4.  I'm not interested in trying to support
building (or just running, since as we've noted, lapack and blas libraries can
be swapped after Octave is installed).

Regarding the more general problem of building Octave on obsolete systems:

Supporting (or even just being able to build) current versions of Octave on
older systems with older versions of packages is what originally prompted me
to modify MXE to allow native builds on Linux systems.

That was in the days before container systems like snap or docker were widely
available on all modern distributions.  Now, if you need to run current Octave
on an old Linux system and for some reason can't upgrade to the current
version of your OS, maybe consider a container solution.

If your system is so old that it doesn't support those container systems, then
you could try using mxe-octave to build the current version of Octave and
recent versions of all the required dependencies.  However, I currently have
no interest in maintaining mxe-octave for native builds.

And if your system is so old that it doesn't support those container systems,
then I think you are really in the realm of retro computing and I don't
understand why you want retro computing for the OS and dependencies but not
for Octave.


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