Re: Fw: Re: msys from octave

[Andy Buckle]

On 26 December 2011 15:57, nitnit <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> andy buckle wrote
>>
>>
>> I just managed to clear that problem by doing the following.
>>
>> C:\Users\andy>cd C:\Octave\Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2\Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2\msys
>> C:\Octave\Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2\Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2\msys>set
>> HOME=%homepath%
>> C:\Octave\Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2\Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2\msys>msys.bat
>>
>> You could set HOME permanently as a windows environment variable. I
>> used the installer (which is just a straight self-extracting exe based
>> on Tatsuro and Nitzan's work)
>>
>>
>
> The env. var can be easily set by octaverc using the setenv command (will do
> that on next update).
>
> Nitzan

If MSYS is used outside of Octave, that wouldn't help, though, would it?

The NSIS installer should be able to set HOME. For the next one.

Andy

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