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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