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bug #61568: [octave forge] (interval) Fix compilation with Octave 8

Submitter:  Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
Submitted:  Fri 26 Nov 2021 05:05:38 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Package Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Build Failure
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Sat 29 Jan 2022 10:41:12 AM UTC, comment #3: 


comment #2:

> Thus, the minimum Octave version of the package should probably be increased from 3.8 to 4.2.


This minimum version increase sounds reasonable.

Fixed with interval-3.2.1.

Kai Torben Ohlhus <siko1056>
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Mon 10 Jan 2022 11:26:13 PM UTC, comment #2: 

The patch has been applied in the repository, thank you very much for the preparation.

According to [1] the error_state has been replaced by the exception mechanism in 2016 with Octave 4.2.  Thus, the minimum Octave version of the package should probably be increased from 3.8 to 4.2.

Or am I missing something?

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-4.2.html

Oliver Heimlich <oheim>
Fri 26 Nov 2021 05:07:32 PM UTC, comment #1: 

A possible patch is attached.

(file #52352)

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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Fri 26 Nov 2021 05:05:38 PM UTC, original submission:  

Quoting jwe from bug #61551:

> The global 'error_state' variable has been useless for quite some time now.  It's been removed on the default branch (what will become version 8.1 in about a year).  Since about 6 years ago, it has never had a value other than 0 in Octave code and is no longer useful for checking whether an error has occurred because exceptions are thrown, so checking the state of a variable after an error occurs is not useful except inside a 'catch' clause that handles 'octave::execution_exception'.
> All uses of this variable should be removed from the video package and any other packages that still use it.  You should have been seeing a warning at compile time about it being deprecated since before version 6 was released (it was marked as deprecated in May 2019).


This also applies to the interval package.
I'll attach a possible patch as soon as I'll have a bug number.

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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