Note: Best to use the patched source from Ubuntu/Debian which fixes some
bugs.
Also added "Patched with margin-left.patch" text to output of
htmldoc --version
- once installed, Octave functions can never really be uninstalled
(clear -f doesn't prevent the function being called again), so
it makes no sense to install functions more than once
- this can lead to a significant speed-up of module loading times,
up to a factor of 10 for a large module loaded multiple times
- this introduces a memory leak, which becomes significant for large
modules (many global variables) and many module re-loadings (e.g.
during a long-running script)
- the original motivation was to prevent double-frees on exit, but this
problem appears to have been fixed by the _Exit() hack in later commits,
and in any case is an issue only for Octave ~3.2, so it should be safe to
remove; tested by running Octave examples/test suite with Debian 3.2.4 and
built-from-source 3.2.4, 3.4.3, and 3.6.3
- Now Guile examples are built in a consistent way to other target
languages.
- Also set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 to remove auto-compilation is enabled
warnings
Use new guile_embedded_run target or guile_run target for running the
examples like the other target languages (for suppressing stdout if run
from top level).
Consistency with other target language file renames: use runme.scm for
scripts and example.i, example.c for example code.
Add class example to examples being tested.
- rename example modules from "example" to "swigexample", to avoid a
warning from shadowing the Octave built-in function "example"
- remove deprecated "static" Makefile targets: there is no longer
an option to build static Octave modules in the Examples Makefile
- emacs whitespace cleanup run on all files
dynamic-link and load-extension work without passing the .so or .dll as
the shared library extension, so these have been dropped so the examples
and test-suite work on Cygwin.
Also update documentation and use the 'lib' prefix as that is what we
commonly name the shared libraries.
Replace pkg-config with guile-config to look for guile. Using pkg-config
requires the pkg.m4 autoconf macros to be properly installed on the
machine running autogen.sh which is frequently a problem. pkg-config
only supports more recent releases of guile so isn't very good at
finding guile either.
