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Re: dirty but most simple method by which pkg install will be successful


From: Michael Goffioul
Subject: Re: dirty but most simple method by which pkg install will be successful in mingw octave
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:14:05 +0100

On 11/8/07, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thank you for your reply.
> I noticed here my verbose log after my modification pkg.m.
> Without it,
> octave.exe:4> pkg install -local -verbose io-1.0.3.tar.gz
> cp: missing destination file
> Try `cp --help' for more information.
> mkdir (C:/DOCUME~1/Tatsu/LOCALS~1/Temp\oct-2)
> untar (io-1.0.3.tar.gz, C:/DOCUME~1/Tatsu/LOCALS~1/Temp\oct-2)
> make: Entering directory `/tmp/oct-2/io-1.0.3/src'
> mkoctfile dlmread.cc
> mkoctfile textread.cc
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-2/io-1.0.3/src'
> warning: package io is empty
>
> The pkg stopped at preparation stage.
> You said that the current pkg.m consider msys.
> But for my system, it does not seem to work at all.
> So I have been preparing patch for pkg.m.
>
> What do you think about this ?
>
> Is this the system problem ?

My initial idea was that cp could not deal with mixed \ and /,
but I made a quick trial here and it works perfectly, so I was
wrong. So your other idea with the Japanese/Chinese character
system might a better explanation.

Michael.


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