[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41936] package management in octave has a syntactic error in install.m

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                 Summary: package management in octave has a syntactic error
in install.m
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Sat 22 Mar 2014 02:52:30 PM UTC
                Category: Octave Forge Package
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Installation Failure
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Anguelos
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.8.1
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

The bug is not in an octave forge package but in the package infrastructure as
hole.

I have installed octave 3.8.1 on gentoo/prefix running on centos 6.3. x86_64
I am very new to both centos and gentoo. 
When I do:
octave prompt >pkg install image-2.2.1.tar.gz
I get :
parse error near line 140 of file
/home/*****/gentoo/usr/share/octave/3.8.1/m/pkg/private/install.m
>>>   endfor

error: 'if' command matched by 'endfor' near line 140 column 5


Indeed when I examined the code  the seems to be an unmatched if in line 65. I
commented it out and it seems to work but I ma not sure if this fix doesn't
push the bug deeper.





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