Re: Octave 3.8.1-rc3 release candidate available for ftp

[Marco Atzeri]

On 19/02/2014 09:34, Pascal Dupuis wrote:
> Hello Marco,
>
> great work ! My students will be able to use octave under Windows.
>
> I indeed saw that there was an update on cygwin.  I did some brief
> testing over octave + linear algebra package:
> 1) octave-cli: everything OK
> 2) /usr/bin/octave --force-gui fails with "octave: failed to exec
> '/usr/lib/octave/3.8.0/exec/x86_64-unknown-cygwin/octave-gui'"
> On my compiled version, the gui exec is
> ~/usr/libexec/octave/3.8.0/exec/x86_64-unknown-cygwin/octave-gui.exe;
> this program is the only entry under
> ~/usr/libexec/octave/3.8.0/exec/x86_64-unknown-cygwin

that is a side effect of my decision to put octave-gui in /usr/bin
I missed to note that "octave --force-gui" is expecting to find
octave-gui in /usr/lib/octave/3.8.0/exec/x86_64-unknown-cygwin

I will take care for 3.8.1 binary release

> 3) The gui client can be launched as "/usr/bin/octave-gui". Octave
> scripts run OK; graphs OK too. But the 'less' mechanism, with f.i.
> "help pkg", fails. I get the first page, terminated by
> -- less -- (f)orward, (b)ack, (q)uit
> At this stage, typing " " or "f" cause the screen to scroll up one
> line, and the new line either is empty, either contains a single 'f'.
> Typing 'ctrl-c' twice permits to abort, and is the only issue. I do
> not get this behaviour on my own compiled 3.8.0 version. How can we
> detect the differences between the two ?

that behavior is very bad.
I will look if 3.8.1rc3 is showing the same defect.

If you want to replicate my build you can just download the src package
(octave-3.8.0-2-src.tar.xz) and build with

cygport octave-3.8.0-2.cygport almostall

> Best regards
>
> Pascal

Regards
Marco