Re: unable to find the mkoctfile command

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 16:28:02 +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> working on packing octave and forge packages, I just hit
> this very unusual error:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> $ octave
> GNU Octave, version 3.8.0
>
> [cut]
> Octave was configured for "i686-pc-cygwin".
> [cut]
>
> octave:1> pkg install general-1.3.2.tar.gz
> pkg: unable to find the mkoctfile command, Octave installation is incomplete
> error: called from '__gripe_missing_component__' in file
> /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/help/__gripe_missing_component__.m near line 53,
> column 3
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/install.m at line 199, column
> 5
> error:   /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 394, column 9
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> As of course mkoctfile is where should be
>
>  $ which mkoctfile
> /usr/bin/mkoctfile
>
>  $ mkoctfile --version
> mkoctfile, version 3.8.0
>
> something else went wrong on my packaging.
> Any idea where to look for ?

Do you have /usr/bin/mkoctfile-3.8.0(.exe)? Does cygwin use .exe or
not? And what is the value of octave_config_info("EXEEXT")?

If you do not install the versioned names of the Octave programs,
you'll probably want to patch some functions such as mkoctfile that
are expecting to find the version suffix. Or does that program/symlink
exist and you still get the error?

-- 
mike