dirty but most simple method by which pkg install will be successful in mingw octave

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hi

This is Tatsuro.

Perhaps Benjamin's binary appear in the near future.

I fount that dirty but most simple method by which pkg install will be 
successful in mingw octave.

That is modify  DEFUN filesep in dirfns.cc

DEFUN (filesep, args, ,
  "-*- texinfo -*-\n\
@deftypefn {Built-in Function} {} filesep ()\n\
Return the system-dependent character used to separate directory names.\n\
@seealso{pathsep, dir, ls}\n\
@end deftypefn")
{
  octave_value retval;

  if (args.length () == 0)
    retval = "/"; /*retval = file_ops::dir_sep_str; */ /* Dirtty hack for msys 
*/
  else
    print_usage ();

  return retval;
}


    retval = "/"; /*retval = file_ops::dir_sep_str; */ /* Dirtty hack for msys 
*/

This is the most dirty but simple solution.


octave.exe:12> pkg prefix 
C:/Programs/msys/1.0/local/octave-2.9.16/octave-forge/main
C:/Programs/msys/1.0/local/octave-2.9.16/octave-forge/main
ans = C:\Programs\msys\1.0\local\octave-2.9.16\octave-forge\main
octave.exe:13>
octave.exe:13>
octave.exe:13>
octave.exe:13> cd 
C:/progra~1/cygwin/opt/octave/octave-forge-bundle-20071014/main
octave.exe:14>
octave.exe:14> pkg install -local io-1.0.3.tar.gz
octave.exe:15> pkg list
Package Name  | Version | Installation directory
--------------+---------+-----------------------
          io *|   1.0.3 | .../io-1.0.3


However, in this patch the Octave should be exectuted on the msys shell.

Tatsuro


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