I used the ebuild from 2004-02-12 *without* the two pataches octave-2.1.57+.patch and ${P}-fPIC.patch. As far as I can tell the 2.1.57+ patch is not necessary anymore (the file galois-def.h that it modifies is different). I suppose it could still be used to remove a trailing \ from one of the lines but it doesn't seem to do any harm... I don't know the purpose of the fPIC patch but it won't apply cleanly because the relevant lines of the Makefile look like this: xmltree.o: xmltree.c xmltree.h $(MKOCTFILE) $(MISCDEFS) -c $< and the patch looks like this: xmltree.o: xmltree.c xmltree.h - $(CC) -c $< -o $@ + $(CC) -fPIC -c $< -o $@ Anyway works for me without that patch. The current GiNaC for +ginac won't build because it doesn't work with readline 5. I used ginac-1.2.2 from bug 59829 and octave-forge builds against it (I'm not sure what functionality ginac adds to octave-forge so I don't really know how to test it). Emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.4.27) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.27 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.5.2 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aalib alsa apm arts berkdb cdr cjk crypt cups dga directfb dvd emacs encode esd f77 faad fbcon fftw flac gcj gdbm gif gimpprint ginac gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imlib jack java jpeg ldap leim libg++ libwww lirc live mad matroska mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls objc offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png ppds python qhull qt quicktime radeon readline scanner sdk sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype usb v4l video_cards_radeon wxwindows x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib"
2004.09.09 is releasd, marking this as duplicate of new bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63553 ***
