Bug 1136487 – Octave 3.8 support for swig

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Bug 1136487 - Octave 3.8 support for swig

Summary:	Octave 3.8 support for swig

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	swig (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	7.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	unspecified Severity medium
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Jitka Plesnikova
QA Contact:	Martin Cermak
Docs Contact:	Tomas Capek

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Keywords:	EasyFix, FutureFeature, Patch

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Blocks:	1191019 1289025 1305230
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Reported:	2014-09-02 13:15 EDT by Orion Poplawski
Modified:	2016-11-03 21:05 EDT (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Doc Type:	Release Note
Doc Text:	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:	2016-11-03 21:05:15 EDT
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Patch for support Octave 3.8.0 (10.80 KB, patch) 2014-09-03 06:45 EDT, Jitka Plesnikova	no flags	Details \| Diff
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External Trackers
Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2016:2227	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	swig bug fix and enhancement update	2016-11-03 09:26:40 EDT

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Description Orion Poplawski 2014-09-02 13:15:51 EDT

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 06:21:45 EDT

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 06:45:26 EDT

Created attachment 934039 [details]
Patch for support Octave 3.8.0

Comment 4 Orion Poplawski 2014-09-03 11:57:24 EDT

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 01:55:25 EDT

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 07:33:14 EDT

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 2016-11-03 21:05:15 EDT

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

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