[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #33109] help doesn't work if current directory is not writable

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?33109>

                 Summary: help doesn't work if current directory is not
writable
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: stephenms
            Submitted on: Sun 17 Apr 2011 07:24:34 PM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Stephen Montgomery-Smith
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.2.4
        Operating System: *BSD

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Details:

+verbitim+
cd /a-directory-without-write-permissions
octave --eval "help inv"
-verbitim-

gives some horrible error messages.

Here is the fix:

+verbitim+
diff -ur scripts/help-orig/__makeinfo__.m scripts/help/__makeinfo__.m
--- scripts/help-orig/__makeinfo__.m    2011-04-17 18:11:18.000000000 +0000
+++ scripts/help/__makeinfo__.m 2011-04-17 18:10:02.000000000 +0000
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@

   unwind_protect
     ## Write Texinfo to tmp file
-    [fid, name, msg] = mkstemp ("octave_help_XXXXXX", true);
+    [fid, name, msg] = mkstemp (sprintf("%s/octave_help_XXXXXX",P_tmpdir()),
tr
ue);
     fwrite (fid, text);
     fclose (fid);
-verbitim-

It is important to fix this problem, because it plays havoc with the FreeBSD
tinderbox build system.





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