Re: Trying to compile Octave on RHEL 7.3

[Michael Metts]

yahoo!  it works!  very happy!  thanks a million!  i can give you the build and 
test results on the dev version.  i think it failed 42 or 43 when i ran make 
check …  happy to contribute back to this.  

> On Mar 2, 2017, at 1:21 PM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 13:16:54 -0800, Michael Metts wrote:
>> hey Mike.  if i SU to root and run ./run-octave it seems to work just
>> fine - i.e. command window is NOT blank with black dots.  i’m still
>> trying to figure out what the difference is.  where does Octave hide
>> user settings?  for instance, when i ran it as root it gave me the
>> intro screens.  when run it as myself it doesn’t not.  i’m wondering
>> if there’s some old file that i should erase.  all i found in ~/ was
>> .octave_hist … 
>> 
>> i’m happy to open a bug report too.  i tried comparing the results of
>> env > myenv side by side to see if there’s something funny about root
>> vs. me … nothing i didn’t already know about or expect.  i’ll keep
>> digging.  
> 
> Try deleting the ~/.config/octave directory. This is where various GUI
> preferences are stored. It's possible an old settings file is giving the
> latest version problems.
> 
> -- 
> mike