Re: help installing control 2.4.4 in in non-standard path installation of 3.6.3 on RHEL6

[Troy Lutes]

Hey Olaf,

Thanks for the reply.

I am not certain, but I think that this (3.6.2) was installed with 
"DESTDIR" and not configured with --prefix=PREFIX.

I built 3.6.4 with --prefix=/opt/octave/octave-3.6.4 and ended up with this:
address@hidden octave-3.6.4]# pwd
/opt/octave/octave-3.6.4
address@hidden octave-3.6.4]# ll
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 26 10:25 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 26 10:25 include
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 26 10:25 lib
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 26 10:26 libexec
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 26 10:26 share
address@hidden octave-3.6.4]#

Now control installs fine.

Thanks.

On 08/22/2013 01:36 PM, Olaf Till wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:04:55AM -0500, Troy Lutes wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have Octave 3.6.3 installed in /usr/local/octave-3.6.3 on an NFS
> > exported dirve. It was built with "./configure
> > --prefix=/usr/local/octave-3.6.3" so that it created subdirectories
> > like this /usr/local/octave-3.6.3/usr/local/share/octave/3.6.3.
> This should not be so, are you sure? With this prefix, it should
> create subdirectories like
>
> /usr/local/octave-3.6.3/share/octave/3.6.3/
>
> > <snip>
> > Also "pkg install - forge control" fails like this:
> > octave:1> pkg install -forge control
> > warning: creating installation directory /usr/local/share/octave/packages
> > error: could not create installation directory: No such file or directory
> > error: called from:
> > error:   /usr/local/octave-3.6.3/scripts/pkg/pkg.m at line 659, column 7
> Where comes this path from? Maybe you are running Octave from your
> build directory? In this case, it seems you installed Octave under
> your build directory. Is that so? I would not try such a thing, I
> would not expect this is supported.
>
> Olaf

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