Re: Error installing the symbol package

[Colin Macdonald]

On 07/05/17 10:15 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 21:23:56 -0700, Colin Macdonald wrote:
> > I noticed that the bug report that Mike linked suggests using the
> > symbolic-win-py-bundle-2.x.y.zip package avoids this issue.
>
> I thought it said the opposite, that the bundle hit the same issue. The
> problem is the pkg installation stage that runs makeinfo. So unpacking
> the package directy and setting the path manually would avoid that, but
> any "pkg install" command always runs makeinfo.

Oops, you're right.  This seems fairly serious then: some/most/all (?) 
Windows users cannot install the symbolic package without doing some 
manual patching, and the process by which they do so is not explicitly 
documented...  :(  Or have I still missed the point and this is "merely" 
some noisy warnings?

> An updated Octave binary for Windows should either have this Perl module
> patched or provide a newer Perl to fix it.

+1 for that.

thanks,
Colin