Re: Octave/Windows 2.9.15 available

[Michael Goffioul]

On 10/17/07, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:
> ****
> The mkoctfile will not work. Full path of install folder must not have white 
> space " ".
>
> Slight modification of mkoctfile.m is required. The file 'mkoctfile.m' is 
> found at,
> <Installed directry>\share\octave\2.9.13\m\miscellaneous\mkoctfile.m.
>
> line 133: cmd = strcat ("\"", cmd, "\""); # Proposed patch in the thread.
> line 134: status = system (cmd);
>
> The "line 133" is the required to be inserted in "mkoctfile.m"
> ****
>
> are still required so I only rewrite the version number
> 'Note for mkoctfile for MSVC-octave 2.9.13'
> to
> 'Note for mkoctfile for MSVC-octave 2.9.15'.
>
> I think white space problem may be difficult to solve.
> However, the second one has a solution.
> Have you mere left behind to correct it or is there the reason not to modify 
> mkoctfile.m?

This problem is the symptom of a more general problem under Win32
when using "system" and white spaces in the command line. I'd prefer
to tackle this directly in the "system" implementation of octave, but I
still didn't do it.

Michael.