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Re: testing binary of octave-3.3.91 (mingw32) is uploaded


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Re: testing binary of octave-3.3.91 (mingw32) is uploaded
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 17:24:25 -0500

On  3-Feb-2011, fork wrote:

| John W. Eaton <jwe <at> octave.org> writes:
| 
| > You need to have the makeinfo program installed in your path.
| 
| 1> getenv('PATH')
| ans = C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\miktex\bin; <SNIP>
| 
| makeinfo.exe is in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\miktex\bin;  (I also have 2.9
| installed, and should probably delete 2.8 from the path ...)
| 
| However ... in 3.3.91:
| 
| 3> system('makeinfo')
| Unsupported operation system version (4.0).
| ans =  1
| 
| while in 3.2.4:
| 44> system('makeinfo')
| makeinfo: missing file argument.
| Try `makeinfo --help' for more information.
| ans =  1

I don't have a clue what the solution for this problem is.  If you
want Octave to be fully functional, the external dependencies have to
work.  And again, I don't have a Windows system, and I don't have this
problem on my Debian system, so I think you will have to debug the
problem yourself.

jwe


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