The fixed package is the most complex of the packages to get installed. There has been some fairly significant code rot since its last release and it doesn’t build any more. There are 55 errors in my first attempt to build it.
/usr/local/include/octave-4.1.0+/octave/../octave/oct-cmplx.h:49:10: error: no match for ‘operator==’ (operand types are ‘const volatile FixedPoint’ and ‘const volatile FixedPoint’)
if (ax == bx) \
^
There are some problems with complex comparisons and HDF5 configuration. Fixing these at least gets us a build that completes, however we are still stuck with a problem during installation:
“‘dispatch’ undefined near line 2 column 1
error: called from ‘/usr/share/tomcat7/octave/fixed-0.7.10/PKG_ADD’ in file /usr/share/tomcat7/octave/fixed-0.7.10/PKG_ADD near line 2, column 1”
Looking inside fixed.cc and fsort.m there are some requests to include calls to dispatch() in the PKG_ADD file – disabling these resolves the undefined dispatch error message.
Now I see
/usr/share/tomcat7/octave/fixed-0.7.10/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-api-v50+/fixed.oct: failed to load: /usr/share/tomcat7/octave/fixed-0.7.10/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-api-v50+/fixed.oct: undefined symbol: _ZNK5ArrayI17FixedPointComplexE17resize_fill_valueEv
Which is “Array
By some magic, this was fixed in build #133, which I think reflects some changes to octave to undo an incompatible change – following this change it might be possible to undo some of the ‘get-it-to-build’ fixes I have made which may have removed or broken functionality.