Re: mxe-octave stable-octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 01/02/2014 10:51 PM, fgnievinski wrote:
> Thorsten Liebig wrote
> > Thanks for the update, I have build the stable version without any
> > problems.
> > But I have not had the time to test it on some windows machine.
> > If anybody is interested, you can download it here:
> > http://www.openems.de/download/octave/octave-3.8.0.exe
>
> It seems that \share\octave\3.8.0-rc2\ doesn't need to be shipped as there's
> already \share\octave\3.8.0\ ?

This happens because of the way that the distribution is generated.  The 
only way to make one that doesn't possibly contain cruft left over from 
earlier builds with older versions of packages (not just Octave, but any 
dependency) is to use "make clean" and build from scratch.

I think we can do better than this, but it wasn't high on my list of 
priorities.

jwe