Re: Concurrent Octave installations and mkoctfile

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 21, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> Can I have a recommendation on how to have two separate Octave
> installations and easily use mkoctfile for both of them?
> 
> Background information: I have the Debian packages installed mostly so
> I can still check how things were in 3.2.4 when people ask about it,
> but I mostly work myself with the development sources. At the moment I
> need to test my implementation of bwlabeln, but for various reasons I
> need the development sources to test on. While I can think of painful
> fudging around with include and linking paths, I'm hoping there's a
> simple solution that involves minimal fuss.
> 
> TIA,
> - Jordi G. H.

I haven't tried, but have been giving some thought to attempting to create a 
run-mkoctfile that mirrors the way run-octave works.

Is there a reason that won't work?

Ben