Can't install a package in 3.1.53ff

John W. Eaton jwe at octave.org
Mon Mar 9 15:32:02 CDT 2009


On  9-Mar-2009, Thomas Treichl wrote:

| John W. Eaton schrieb:
| > On  8-Mar-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:
| > 
| > | søn, 08 03 2009 kl. 21:46 +0100, skrev Thomas Treichl:
| > | > Then I think we already found the bug. On Macs, if there exists a directory 
| > | > 'doc' then this is the same as 'dOc', 'DOC' etc. from the system's view (not the 
| > | > filesystem's view).
| > | 
| > | Now that's just silly! But if that's the way things are, then that's the
| > | way things are. So, what should we then call our documentation cache?
| > | "DOC.mat", "DOC_CACHE", "doc_cache", <your_favorite_suggestion> ?
| > 
| > Yeah, filesystems that are case-insensitive but still preserve case
| > are just annoying.
| > 
| > I checked in the follwoing change.  Does it work for you?
| > 
| >   http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/6994961bf1f4
| 
| Nearly, there still seems to be one 'DOC' left in scripts/pkg/pkg.m. If I change 
| this to 'doc-cache' then yes, I can install a package. Can you add this change 
| per hand or should I send a changeset?
| 
|    bash$ cat scripts/pkg/pkg.m | grep DOC
|      gen_doc_cache (fullfile (dirs{i}, "DOC"), dirs{i});

Sorry I missed this one the first time around.  It should be fixed
now.

Thanks,

jwe



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