Re: [cygwin] run-octave failure

[marco atzeri]

Il 11/26/2013 11:11 AM, CdeMills ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> Trying to get the latest version running under cygwin. Compilation phase
> runs OK up to the point where 'run-octave' is invoked.
>
> I modified it to echo the exact command instead of running it; the beginning
> is
>
> OCTAVE_BINDIR=/cygdrive/c/Users/PascalDupuis/Programming/octave/compile/src
> OCTAVE_SITE_INITFILE=/home/PascalDupuis/WinHome/Programming/octave/compile/../scripts/startup/main-rcfile
> OCTAVE_DEFAULT_QT_SETTINGS=/cygdrive/c/Users/PascalDupuis/Programming/octave/compile/libgui/default-qt-settings
> OCTAVE_LOCALE_DIR=/cygdrive/c/Users/PascalDupuis/Programming/octave/compile/libgui/languages
> OCTAVE_JAVA_DIR=/cygdrive/c/Users/PascalDupuis/Programming/octave/compile/scripts/java
> exec /cygdrive/c/Users/PascalDupuis/Programming/octave/compile/libtool
> --mode=execute
> /cygdrive/c/Users/PascalDupuis/Programming/octave/compile/src/octave
> --no-init-path
> --path=/home/PascalDupuis/WinHome/Programming/octave/compile/../scripts:
> ....
>
> This command line is 8460 byte long ... The interpreter is zsh; is there
> some limitation with the command length ? How can I increase it ?

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-10/msg00456.html

unknown reason and I have found not yet a solution,
but I have no real time to investigate.

I suggest you to trim
/cygdrive/c/Users/PascalDupuis/Programming/octave/
to something shorter like /pub/octave

> Regards
>
> Pascal

Marco