Hi, I have noticed a problem with the installation path of octave-forge packages on my gentoo system. The .oct files get installed under /usr/libexec/octave/packages/<package>, but octave does not find them. It appears that the package search path was changed recently from /usr/libexec/octave/packages to /usr/lib/octave/packages (or, as in my case, /usr/lib64/octave/packages). See the following posts for details:
https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2011-March/023344.html https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2011-March/023446.html https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2011-March/023448.html Indeed, linking /usr/libexec/octave/packages to /usr/lib64/octave/packages solves the problem. Gentoo's package manager uses package_Makefile.in from octave-forge to install the packages: http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/packages/package_Makefile.in However, this makefile still uses the old path for installing the .oct files. Below, I have attached a patch that updates it to use the new path. Kind regards, Andrej --- octave-forge/package_Makefile.in.orig 2012-02-29 20:24:25.000000000 +0100 +++ octave-forge/package_Makefile.in 2012-02-29 20:24:40.000000000 +0100 @@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ pkgdir=`octave -H -q --no-site-file --eval "warning('off','all');pkg('install','$(PACKAGE)');l=pkg('list');disp(l{cellfun(@(x)strcmp(x.name,'$(PKG)'),l)}.dir);$$stripcmd;"`; \ else \ shareprefix=$(DESTDIR)/`octave -H -q --no-site-file --eval "disp(fullfile(OCTAVE_HOME(),'share','octave'));"`; \ - libexecprefix=$(DESTDIR)/`octave -H -q --no-site-file --eval "disp(fullfile(octave_config_info('libexecdir'),'octave'));"`; \ + libprefix=$(DESTDIR)/`octave -H -q --no-site-file --eval "disp(fullfile(octave_config_info('libdir'),'octave'));"`; \ octprefix=$$shareprefix/packages; \ - archprefix=$$libexecprefix/packages; \ + archprefix=$$libprefix/packages; \ if [ ! -e $$octprefix ]; then \ mkdir -p $$octprefix; \ fi; \ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
