Bug 1136487

Summary: Octave 3.8 support for swig
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Component: swigAssignee: Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Cermak <mcermak>
Severity: medium Docs Contact: Tomas Capek <tcapek>
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.0CC: i, jorton, lmiksik, mcermak, ovasik, ppisar
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: EasyFix, FutureFeature, Patch
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OS: Linux   
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Support for Octave 3.8 used by _swig_ Previously, the Octave code generated by *swig* 2.0.10 did not work with Octave 3.8, because it contained deprecated bits such as variables and macros. This update ensures that *swig* produces code which works with Octave of versions 3.0.5, 3.2.4, 3.4.3, 3.6.4, and 3.8.0.
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Last Closed: 2016-11-04 01:05:15 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1191019, 1289025, 1305230    
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Patch for support Octave 3.8.0 none

Description Orion Poplawski 2014-09-02 17:15:51 UTC 
Description of problem:

swig 2.0.10 does not produce appropriate code for octave 3.8 (now in EPEL).  swig 3.0.0 has support via this commit https://github.com/swig/swig/commit/5b167cc12daf9ea275c17fedaefc975450613ab2.patch which probably could be backported fairly easily.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.0.10-4.el7
Comment 2 Jitka Plesnikova 2014-09-03 10:21:45 UTC 
I can update the swig, but I am not able to check it properly for octave 3.8.0.
The build tests don't cover octave, because it isn't part of RHEL.

If you want to check it, you can use rpms at 
https://jplesnik.fedorapeople.org/swig-octave-3.8.0/
Comment 3 Jitka Plesnikova 2014-09-03 10:45:26 UTC 
Created attachment 934039 [details]
Patch for support Octave 3.8.0
Comment 4 Orion Poplawski 2014-09-03 15:57:24 UTC 
Jitka - Wow, that might be the quickest response I have ever received to a RHEL bug.  Thanks!

I built plplot with octave support just fine with your patched swig package, so that did the trick.  Thanks again.  Now I'm sorry I didn't file it back in January.
Comment 5 Jitka Plesnikova 2014-09-04 05:55:25 UTC 
I cannot promise that the fix will be at RHEL 7.1.

Please contact Red Hat Product Support ( access.redhat.com ) - this can increase the chances for next minor release.
Comment 8 Jitka Plesnikova 2016-03-16 11:33:14 UTC 
For tests I did:
* install octave-devel from EPEL 7 repository
* install all BRs (autoconf, automake, boost-devel, dos2unix, gawk, guile-devel, 
    pcre-devel, perl, perl(Test::More), perl-devel, python-devel, tcl-devel)
* rebuild source RPM, 
rpmbuild --rebuild swig-2.0.10-5.el7.src.rpm

Octave tests passed
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 01:05:15 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2227.html