octave-forge on FreeBSD 7.0

[Maho NAKATA]

From: Mark Linimon <linimon at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: octave-forge on FreeBSD 7.0
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:59:56 -0600

> I'd rather see USE_GCC set unconditionally, so that INDEX will
> be the same on 6 and 7.

Me too.

> Is there any hope of the software being updated?  My concern is
> that once we set this, we'll tend to forget about it later.

Yes.
IMHO, octave-forge should be merged into octave itself,
and relese version of octave and corrsponding octave-forge is old.
I think this is a temporal situation. Once octave will be updated
octave-forge will also be updated, and I believe octave-forge
will be built with gcc42.

Thanks,
-- Nakata Maho (maho at FreeBSD.org)