unable to find the mkoctfile command

[John D]

Message: 7
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:28:02 +0100
From: Marco Atzeri <address@hidden>
To: Octave Maintainers List <address@hidden>
Subject: unable to find the mkoctfile command
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working on packing octave and forge packages, I just hit this very unusual
error:

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$ octave
GNU Octave, version 3.8.0

[cut]
Octave was configured for "i686-pc-cygwin".
[cut]

octave:1> pkg install general-1.3.2.tar.gz
pkg: unable to find the mkoctfile command, Octave installation is incomplete
error: called from '__gripe_missing_component__' in file
/usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/help/__gripe_missing_component__.m near line 53,
column 3
error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/install.m at line 199, 
column 5
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 394, column 9
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As of course mkoctfile is where should be

  $ which mkoctfile
/usr/bin/mkoctfile

  $ mkoctfile --version
mkoctfile, version 3.8.0

something else went wrong on my packaging.
Any idea where to look for ?

Regards
Marco




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The pkg install script actually looks for
octave_bin_dir/mkoctfile-[VERSION][exe]
Where:
Bin_dir = octave_config_infi("bindir");
Version = version();
Exe = octave_config_info("EXEEXT")

Running from the octave, what do they return on your system?