Re: unable to find the mkoctfile command

[Marco Atzeri]

On 15/01/2014 16:42, Mike Miller wrote:
> 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?

of course as it is a script, it should not have a ".exe" suffix

$ ls -l  /usr/bin/mkoctfile*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 marco None    15 Jan 15 15:36 /usr/bin/mkoctfile -> 
mkoctfile-3.8.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 marco None 14960 Jan 14 14:37 /usr/bin/mkoctfile-3.8.0

exactly as it was on 3.6.4, see
http://cygwin.com/packages/x86/octave-devel/octave-devel-3.6.4-1

Regards
Marco