Re: pkg.m : support for url transfers was disabled when Octave was built (?)

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Julien Bect <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear Maintainers,
>
> I get the following error on a fresh build of Octave 3.9.0+ (a2294cc6e027)
> on Ubuntu 13.04 :
>
>>> pkg -forge install signal
> error: support for url transfers was disabled when Octave was built
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.9.0+/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 386, column 23
>
> This is the first time that I see this error, and I haven't changed anything
> in my build process (configure is called without options, and doesn't report
> any missing library).
>
> Am I missing something ? Should I file a bug report ?
>
> @++
> Julien
>

Maybe it is related to permissions. Are you using local installs (i.e.
have you set prefix)? Try running as sudo and see if you get the same
error.