RE: Question about octave-2.1.34

[Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza]

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

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> 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
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E-Mail: Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza <address@hidden>
Date: 08-Sep-01
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