nitnit wrote
Matt Flax wrote
Yes - thanks for the suggestion - I tried this previously ... this is
the result :
$ pi.sh
This is a post install process that will try to normalize between
your MinGW install if any as well as your previous MSYS installs
if any. I don't have any traps as aborts will not hurt anything.
Do you wish to continue with the post install? [yn ] y
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/_/.inputrc': No such file or
directory
/etc/profile: line 59: cd: /home/_: Not a directory
I am not sure that the msys+mingw subdirs included with the octave 7z
archive are properly set and configured for full msys functionality. I
have constructed these subdirs from Tatsuros archives, and adjusted the
environment to support basic mkoctfile functionality from within octave.
I suggest that if you wish to use wider functionality, you will install
and properly configure msys and mingw on your system, and adjust the env.
vars which are set by ocraverc to use your installed msys and mingw
instead of these provided by the 7z archive.
For a basic msys start:
In the msys directory,
- add a directory ./home
- add a directory ./home/<your name>
- in ./etc, adapt fstab to your local setup.
BTW you can also put your home directory outside the msys subdir tree. A
fine example is the entry for Tatsuro's home dir in the, well, original
fstab in the .7z octave-3.4.3 file.
That should at least improve your msys experience.
Specific msys environment vars (the ones you don't need in Windows) can be
set in a .profile file in the home directory using the usual entries like in
linux.
Philip
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