[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #58320] [mxe-octave] Add ability to specify a local or allusers install from the installer

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #58320 (project octave):

You're spot on, John. I didn't run configure again.

I re-ran the bootstrap script (just to be sure) and configured with:

./configure --enable-devel-tools --enable-windows-64 --enable-octave=default
--enable-binary-packages --with-ccache --with-pkg-dir=../mxe-octave-pkg


After that, I re-build the installer.
With it, the first thing that appears on screen after starting it is still the
elevated privileges dialog. If I answer with "No", the installer doesn't
open.

Do I need to wipe anything else?

I don't know much about NSIS or how it determines if it needs admin
privileges. So this might not help much:
In the nsis.log, I see 2 warnings. Maybe they have anything to do with it:

2 warnings:
  6012: label "uninst_check_installs" not used
  6012: label "find_check_reg_hkcu" not used


In octave.nsi, there is the following line:

!define MULTIUSER_EXECUTIONLEVEL Highest



Back to the installation process: If I answer with "Yes", the installer opens.
During the installation, I see the new page where I selected "Install just for
me".

The default installation location doesn't point to %ProgramData% here but to
%LocalAppData% (which seems the better location imho).

Octave seems to work correctly. (Though I didn't bother to wait for the test
suite to finish. It is veeeery slow here. But unrelated to this change here.)

The folder in the start menu has "(Local)" at the end. Could that also (or
instead) be added to the actual program links?
The background is that I often don't bother to scroll down the start menu in
search for the program I'd like to start. But instead I hit the Windows key
and enter "oct". That lists the actual links only (and not the containing
folders). It would be nice to have an indication which of the links is which.

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