[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41131] Attempt to wite to different history_file location (while instaling OF package)

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41131>

                 Summary: Attempt to wite to different history_file location
(while instaling OF package)
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 07 Jan 2014 11:30:39 AM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Philip Nienhuis
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.8.0
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

While running "build_packages" from a just installed mxe-built Octave-3.8.0 in
Windows 7, I get:


pkg ('install', '-global', '-auto', 'windows-1.2.1.tar.gz')
error: writing file 'C:\.octave_hist': Permission denied
error: ignoring octave_execution_exception while preparing to exit
error: writing file 'C:\.octave_hist': Permission denied
error: ignoring octave_execution_exception while preparing to exit
<error msg repeated a few more times>
:
<snip>
:
>> history_file
ans = H:\.octave_hist
>>


so while history_file is supposed to be H:\.octave_hist, Octave tries to write
to C:\.octave_hist (and that root dir of C: is not writable at my work PC)

The build_packages script terminates (aborts) here BTW.

(FTR, as can be expected the Windows package didn't seem to be properly
installed. After manually running

pkg install -verbose -auto windows-1.2.1.tar.gz


the windows package works fine - and I didn't see the history_file errors
then).





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