octave/mingw32 installation tree

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-Jan-2010, Benjamin Lindner wrote:

| I got a octave/mingw32 build to complete, and after executing "make 
| install" I get a somewhat broken installation tree.
| 
| The octave dlls are installed to
|   $prefix/lib/bin
| instead of
|   $prefix/bin
| where the executables are installed to.

What variables are defined to $prefix/lib/bin on your system?

| I need to move the contents of $prefix/lib/bin to $prefix/bin in order 
| to run octave.
| 
| All DLD-FUNCTIONs are installed as dll into
|   $prefix/lib/octave-3.5.50+
| but they should actually not be installed at all, shouldn't they?
| 
| The corresponding .oct files are installed correctly and are found by 
| octave.

OK.  The .dll files should have been removed by the commands in the
install-oct target that I showed in my previous reply.  Why is that
not happening on your system?

jwe