Bug 302231

Summary: urlwrite not working
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Alexander <barth.alexander>
Component: octaveAssignee: Quentin Spencer <qspencer>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: 3.0.0-2.el5 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Alexander 2007-09-23 16:10:13 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5

Description of problem:
Hi,

The urlwrite command (and urlread) is a front-end to the the curl library. It seems that curl support was not activated when octave was compiled. curl is in the base repository. It would be great if curl support could be enabled.

Another issue it that mkoctfile uses -lncurses, but octave-devel does not depend on ncurses-devel.

Thank you for maintaining octave!
Alex


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
octave-2.9.13-1.el5

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. start octave
2. urlwrite ("ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/README", "README.txt");
3.

Actual Results:
nothing

Expected Results:
The file ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/README would be downloaded and saved as README.txt

Additional info:

Comment 1 Quentin Spencer 2008-01-09 18:08:00 UTC
I have fixed this in CVS and started building a new release.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-01-22 15:53:50 UTC
octave-3.0.0-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update octave'

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-02-28 21:41:54 UTC
octave-3.0.0-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.