Re: Concurrent Octave installations and mkoctfile

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 21, 2011, at 11:49 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> 2011/4/21 Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
>> 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?
>> 
>> 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?
> 
> At first I thought this sounded like a great idea and was about to
> implement it, but then I thought a bit more... what about running that
> oct file afterwards? When you create it and link it, should its rpath
> point to the libraries inside the Octave build directory or the
> install directory or both? Would you need to make sure that
> run-mkoctfile from the build dir gives priority to the include and
> linking paths of the build and install directories?
> 
> Maybe these questions have easy answers, maybe they don't. What do you
> think?
> 
> - Jordi G. H.

Your suggestion to give priority to the include and linking paths of the build 
and install directories sounds like a good idea.

I'll eventually, give it a try, but as I'm on MacOS I'll have additional 
problems ... so I'm hoping on of you Linux guys can find a solution that I may 
build on.

Ben