Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Adding project of-ncarray

The ncarray package depends upon the netcdf and statistics packages. It contains no src/ directory and can be installed directly.

Octave build break #916

The octave build has broken with an error in TEXI2DVI: TEXI2DVI doc/interpreter/octave.dvi /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: etex exited with bad status, quitting. make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/octave.dvi] Error 1 This is most likely a result of Changeset 21126:16bb4651a54d by Mike Miller : maint: Include profiler HTML templates in the distribution (bug #48116) * scripts/profiler/module.mk (scripts_EXTRA_DIST): Include$(scripts_profiler_html_DATA) in the list. …which […]

Adding project of-bim

The bim package depends upon the fpl and msh packages. It doesn’t have a src/ directory and can simply be installed.

Adding project of-msh

The msh package depends upon of-splines. This project builds, but has a dependency upon dolfin which isn’t currently met, I will investigate that at some point in the future.

Adding project of-fpl

The fpl package doesn’t have any dependencies or src/ directory, it can just be installed directly.

Adding project of-database

The database package depends upon the struct package and has a src/ directory containing a bootstrap script. Running this script leads to and error: checking for PQconnectdb in -lpq… no configure: error: unable to find the PQconnectdb() function in pq This seems to be because it cannot find libpq.so – checking on the system libpq.so.5 […]

Updates to the octave forge package list

It has been a while since I’ve checked the Octave package list, there have been some changes since I set up the original projects. These are the packages on that page that I haven’t got set up in Jenkins: bim bsltl cgi database fpl msh NaN ncarray netcdf nurbs ocs octcdf queuing secs sparsersb tisean […]

Adding imlib2 project

imlib2 is part of the Enlightenment EFL libraries. It is built using ./autogen.sh, configure and make. In the initial build it is missing support for gif and id3, gif support is added by installing the giflib-devel package, id3 support needs a new project, id3lib.

Setting up the navit build

After installing the dbus-devel package, the navit build fails with this error: In file included from /usr/share/tomcat7/.jenkins/workspace/navit/navit/binding/dbus/binding_dbus.c:22:0: /usr/include/dbus-1.0/dbus/dbus.h:29:33: fatal error: dbus/dbus-arch-deps.h: No such file or directory #include ^ compilation terminated. Looking at the cmake/FindDBus.cmake file shows that it is checking in /usr/lib/include but not in /usr/lib64/include, where the dbus directory can be found. Adding another […]