Re: 3.0.1 release? (Report on cygwin result)

[John W. Eaton]

On  4-Apr-2008, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

| Thank you John.
| > On  3-Apr-2008, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
| > 
| > | octave:3> tilde_expand ("~")
| > | ans = /home
| > | octave:4> tilde_expand ("foobar")
| > | ans = foobar
| > 
| > What does
| > 
| >   getenv ("HOME")
| 
| Octave was configured for "i686-pc-cygwin".
|  :
| octave:1> getenv("HOME")
| ans = /home
| 
| However this comes from my personal cygwin setting.
| Usually the cygwin would like to set HOME in (cygwin installed 
directry)/home/(login user name)
| 
| I do not like this.
| I set /home to other place for my convinient direcrty by cygwin mount  
command.

I'm not sure whether we should try to work around this possible
problem in the tests.  It seems unusual to me that HOME would not be
the same as what is in the password file.  Why do you set it that way?

jwe