This time I want reply: Re: path separator treatment in mingw pkg.m

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Nov-2007, address@hidden wrote:

| >I read the David's the reply to other to a thead.
| >
| >The error message of 
| >error: structure has no member `archprefix'
| >  :
| >  :
| >were lost.
| >
| >But the error 
| >
| >cp: missing destination file
| >Try `cp --help' for more information.
| >
| >remained.
| >
| >I tried pkg install odepkg.
| >
| >pkg install -local -verbose odepkg-0.3.3.tar.gz
| >
| >copyfile
| 
>C:/DOCUME~1/Tatsu/LOCALS~1/Temp\oct-3/odepkg-0.3.3/src/oct-3/odepkg-0.3.3/src/odepkg_mexsolver_dop853.mex
| >......
| >
| >
| >/Temp\oct-3/odepkg-0.3.3/
| >The problem '\' was inserted in the path.
| >
| >Can anyone tell me where this path constructed in the pkg.m?

As far as I can tell, filenames in pkg.m are always constructed with
the fullfile function.

What do the following functions return on your system?

  filesep
  tempdir
  OCTAVE_HOME

jwe