From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Apr 19 14:49:00 2001
Subject: `make install' not installing symlink to .../lib/octave-2.1.32/
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: David Livings <david dot livings at asa dot co dot uk>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:48:50 -0500

Sorry for the long delay.  I've made your suggested change.

Thanks,

jwe


On 20-Dec-2000, David Livings <david dot livings at asa dot co dot uk> wrote:

| Bug report for Octave 2.1.32 configured for %OCTAVE_CANONICAL_HOST_TYPE%
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| After configuring, compiling and installing Octave 2.1.32 yesterday, I
| had a look around to check that all the pieces had been installed
| properly. On listing /home/davidl/Linux/lib/ I found the following:
| 
| lrwxrwxrwx   1 davidl   davidl         13 May  2  2000 octave -> octave-2.1.30/
| drwxr-xr-x   2 davidl   davidl       1024 May  2  2000 octave-2.1.30/
| drwxr-xr-x   2 davidl   davidl       1024 Jul 19 12:45 octave-2.1.31/
| drwxr-xr-x   2 davidl   davidl       1024 Dec 19 12:40 octave-2.1.32/
| 
| The octave symlink had not been updated to point to octave-2.1.32/ and
| had apparently also not been updated when I installed Octave 2.1.31 in
| July.
| 
| Repeat-By:
| ---------
| 
| The machine is running SuSE Linux 6.2. I untarred
| octave-2.1.32.tar.gz, configured using the options shown below, and
| ran `make' and `make install'.
| 
| Fix:
| ---
| 
| I believe the problem lies in the definition of mk-libdir-link at the
| end of Makeconf.in, which I reproduce below. The lines which I have
| marked with a `#' prevent the creation of a new symlink if $(libdir)
| already contains a symlink called octave pointing to a directory. The
| otherwise similar definition of mk-includedir-link which immediately
| precedes this definition in Makeconf.in does not include lines
| corresponding to these. I suggest deleting the marked lines unless
| they are necessary for some subtle reason of which I am unaware.
| 
|   define mk-libdir-link
|   src=`echo $(octlibdir) | sed 's|^$(libdir)/*||'` ; \
|   echo $$src ; \
|   if [ "$$src" = "octave" ] ; then \
|     true ; \
|   else \
| #   if [ -d "$(libdir)/octave" ] ; then \
| #     true ; \
| #   else \
|       cd $(libdir) ; \
|       rm -f octave ; \
|       $(LN_S) $$src octave ; \
| #   fi ; \
|   fi
|   endef



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