From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Nov 18 14:22:45 1996
Subject: Re: .oct files
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Doug Warner <warnerd at trinidad dot cs dot dartmouth dot edu>
Cc: jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:21:59 -0600

On 18-Nov-1996, Doug Warner <warnerd at trinidad dot cs dot dartmouth dot edu> wrote:

: For some reason, the link $prefix/include/octave still pointed to the
: last installed snapshot.

Maybe this patch will fix that.


Index: Makefile.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/jwe/src/master/octave/src/Makefile.in,v
retrieving revision 1.155
diff -c -r1.155 Makefile.in
*** Makefile.in	1996/11/17 21:42:37	1.155
--- Makefile.in	1996/11/18 20:11:08
***************
*** 294,305 ****
  	if [ "$$linkdir" = $(octincludedir) ] ; then \
  	  true ; \
  	else \
! 	  if [ -d $$linkdir ] ; then \
! 	    true ; \
! 	  else \
! 	    rm -f $$linkdir ; \
! 	    $(LN_S) $(octincludedir) $$linkdir ; \
! 	  fi ; \
  	fi
  .PHONY: install-lib
  
--- 294,300 ----
  	if [ "$$linkdir" = $(octincludedir) ] ; then \
  	  true ; \
  	else \
! 	  rm -f $$linkdir && $(LN_S) $(octincludedir) $$linkdir ; \
  	fi
  .PHONY: install-lib
  


The intent here is to update the $prefix/include/octave link that
points to the real directory $prefix/include/octave-$version if
$prefix/include/octave is a link.  If it is actually a directory, I
don't want to wipe it out (so rm -rf is not used).

The previous code didn't work because if $linkdir is a symbolic link,
test -d returns information about the ultimate file, not the link.  I
would use a test option to check to see if it is a link, but
apparently that is not very portable (then again, I'm not sure that
this is either).

Thanks,

jwe