From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Sep 8 17:30:15 2001 Subject: RE: Question about octave-2.1.34 From: Dieter dot Jurzitza at t-online dot de (Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza) To: "help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu" Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 23:50:18 +0200 (CEST) Dear listmembers, me again: one important difference is apparent when comparing the declaration of Makeconf.in between octave-2.0.16 and octave-2.1.34 with regard to the problem I mentioned in my first mail: the function mk-libdir-link in Makeconf.in in 2.0.16 used to test for the existence of the directory /usr/lib/octave, if this directory exists, it did nothing. This functionality has been removed for 2.1.34, therefore a link to nowhere is created as shown below (however, this ***should not happen*** because I did not find any line saying: ln -s octave-2.1.34 octave-2.1.34 ... it always ends up saying ln -s octave-2.1.34 octave; but this within /usr/lib). I assume this to be the cause of the erratic behaviour and would still appreciate any comment, take care Dieter Jurzitza ***** > I am left with a broken symbolic link in /usr/lib/octave: > > drwxr-xr-x 2.1.34 > -rw-r--r-- ls-R !!!! > lrwxrwxrwx octave-2.1.34->octave-2.1.34 !!!! > drwxr-xr-x site ***** ----------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza Date: 08-Sep-01 Time: 23:32:46 | \ /\_/\ | | ~x~ |/-----\ / \ /- \_/ ^^__ _ / _ ____ / <°°__ \- \_/ | |/ | | || || _| _| _| _| if you really want to see the pictures above - use some font with constant spacing like courier! :-) ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------