[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51632] MS Windows portable (i.e. zip) version cannot find pre-installed packages, needs pkg rebuild, not mentioned at first run

[Nicholas Jankowski]

Follow-up Comment #16, bug #51632 (project octave):

comment on the maintainers list mentioned that the code would throw an error
every time Octave started if it was on a system where the user didn't have
write access to the normal global_list location. Suggested using a try/catch
to hide the error.


if (exist(pkg("global_list"),"file") == 0)
  try 
    pkg rebuild;
  catch
  end_try_catch
endif


or the ultracompact 1 line version:



if (exist(pkg("global_list"),"file") == 0), try, pkg
rebuild, catch, end_try_catch, endif



looks like this could just be added to the octaverc sitting in mxe-octave. But
that would force this change on everyone to fix a problem only occurring in
the Windows zip-distribution. Maybe a line could be added to the
binary-dist-rules.mk file to append that line(s) to the octaverc file prior to
zipping? Or maybe there's a better way to accomplish that?

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