Hi Gerard, can you please switch to a mailer that doesn't scratch newlines? You can look at how your bug report looks at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496699
I have edited your report below for readability, but actually I would prefer if you send it again with a readable format, because I got tired editing several pages of text. On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:48:31PM +0200, Gerard ODonnell wrote: > Package: octave3.0 > Version: 3.0.2 > Severity: important > Subject: octave3.0: libpq-dev needs to be included in dependencies. > Package: octave3.0 > Version: 3.0.2 > Severity: important > > Please type your report below this line *** > Octave 3.0 itself builds fine from apt-get, but I was trying to add > the 'database' package, and ran into some issues trying to talk to > postgresql databases. All other databases supported by this package are > OK. > > Talking to the database package creator:> I installed your kit, > and can talk to sqlite3 and mysql OK, but when I> type in 'postgres', > I don't receive a definition. Any ideas why? > Does postgres.oct get built? If not, can you send your configure log? > If yes, is it in your path when you run postgres? > Xavier > > THEN:> So I found the problem:> > You do a pkg install database-1.0.1.tar.gz -verbose and you get: > checking postgresql/libpq-fe.h usability... no > checking> postgresql/libpq-fe.h presence... no > checking for> postgresql/libpq-fe.h... no > checking mysql/mysql.h usability... yes > checking mysql/mysql.h presence... yes > so look around for libpq-fe.h:> > sz-ud017:/usr/include# apt-file search libpq-fe.h > libpq-dev: /usr/include/postgresql/libpq-fe.h > sz-ud017:/usr/include > # apt-get install libpq-dev > Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state > information...> Done The following extra packages will be installed:> > libssl-dev> Suggested packages:> postgresql-doc-8.3> The following NEW > packages will be installed:> libpq-dev libssl-dev> 0 upgraded, 2 newly > installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > libpq-dev libssl-dev> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove > > and 0 not upgraded.> Need to get 2519kB of archives.> After this > > operation, 6701kB of additional disk space will be used.>> And then > > an install gives:> checking postgresql/libpq-fe.h usability... yes > > checking> postgresql/libpq-fe.h presence... yes checking for> > > postgresql/libpq-fe.h... yes checking mysql/mysql.h usability... > > yes> checking mysql/mysql.h presence... yes>> and now I can talk to > > a Postgres DB.>> libpq-dev is not installed by default however on > > an install of "postgresql"> with debian. Would it be worth putting > > a note in SF to this effect? > Okay, I'll add some notes about installing required packages to the > README. > Would you still file a bug against the debian database package? since > I think them not building the postgres.oct binary is wrong (the build > machine didn't have libpq-devinstalled, or similar), and it is the > method many/most users will use. Thanks! > Xavier > *************************************** > I rated this as 'important' because most people wanting to install > octave I image would want to talk to a database, and this would be > their normal method ofinstallation. > This package might be needed for octave3.0-headers instead rather than > octave3.0, but I'll leave that up to someone else to decide. So, to be clear: there's not a single line of code in Octave that requires Postgresql, MySQL, Sqlite or whatever database; yet you guys expect us to add a dependency on these packages because one of the 50 packages in octave-forge requires the headers? Not in a thousand years, sorry. Octave already has a truckload of (needed!) depedencies. If you want to create bindings to a database, installing the databases header files is what you must do. Look at Octaviz: if you want to compile it, you need VTK; there's no mention of VTK in Octave's dependency list. By the way, the reason there's no octave-database package in Debian is that we can't build it: amd64, Octave 3.0.1, package just downloaded sqlite3_wrap.cpp: In function ‘octave_value_list _wrap_sqlite3_vmprintf(const octave_value_list&, int)’: sqlite3_wrap.cpp:2930: error: invalid array assignment make: *** [sqlite3.oct] Fehler 1 Earlier: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20080521070015.GC22437%40localhost The MySQL header additionally poses a license problem: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20080616052002.GA3582%40bully.num.umi-sb.de Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
