Re: [OctDev] admin/mk{doc,texi} and multiple Octave versions.

[David B. <Dav...@mo...>]

According to Lute Kamstra <Lut...@cw...> (on 11/06/03):
> Dear octave-forge hackers,
> 
> I just tried to get CVS HEAD from octave forge installed in
> conjunctions with Octave's CVS HEAD.  I encountered two minor
> problems:
> 
> 1. admin/mk{doc,texi} do not have their execute bit set.  I had to do
>    this by hand to convince the Makefiles to build the docs.

Sorry, my fault... But I'm damned if I see how I can add this flag to 
the file in the CVS. I tried adding a single space to the files and
adding the execute flag, but only the space was added. Arrgggghhhh...
How to do this??? I've even tried removing the files and re-adding them.
But they get revived from the Attic with the old permissions.  I think 
the only way is to do the chmod in the RCS tree, but I don't have access 
to this. Does anyone have this type of access to sourceforge???

> 
> 2. I have several versions of Octave in my path.  configure picks the
>    first one it encounters, which was not the right one.  I convinced
>    the configure script to pick the right one with:
> 
>      ./configure OCTAVE=/the/right/octave
> 
>    Maybe this var should be mentioned in INSTALL?


./configure --help

I always run this to figure the correct install options for me everytime I
install a new package.

D.

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