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Re: Octave and Cygwin
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LUK ShunTim |
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Re: Octave and Cygwin |
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Wed, 06 Feb 2002 12:56:48 +0800 |
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Smith, Ken (K.) wrote:
I recently installed octave-windows-2000oct25d from sourceforge. After installing, I
realized that it had overwritten Cygwin registry variables. Therefore, my previously
existing cygwin installation no longer functioned. Even after uninstalling Octave, I
had to manually edit the registry so that the cygwin root directory would point to
the original location. In particular, HKEY_USERS.<some number I'm sure is a
hash>.Software.Cygnus Solutions.Cygwin.mounts v2./, was set to the Octave specific
installation of cygwin.
Why not just require cygwin to have been previously installed? This would be better in
several ways. Firstly, you wouldn't destroy the previous installation. Secondly, it is
redundant and wasteful to have two copies of the same code. And finally, you wouldn't
have to worry about maintaining your own "distribution" of cygwin. In
addition, cygwin is pretty easy to install.
By the way, clicking on the Octave Start Menu entry did nothing but bring up a
console window and subsequently close it after writing a terse message which I
can't recall at the moment.
All this have been discussed some time or another in this list. Basically the
matlink/sf binaries are for people who do not have (or do not know how to
install) a cygwin tree. Things of course change with time and I agree with you
that cygwin is now much easier to install. There are cygwin binaries lying
around that can be installed into an existing cygwin tree.
This page
http://octave.sourceforge.net/Octave_Windows.htm
has a lot of relevant information.
Regards,
ST
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