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

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Philip Nienhuis
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Julien Bect 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 ?
>
> What does (in the Octave terminal):
>
> octave_config_info.features.CURL
>
> return?
>
> Philip
>
>
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I just compiled stable and hit the same problem! It did not happen the
last time I compiled.
octave_config_info.features.CURL
returns 1