[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-4.0.1-1

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-4.0.1-1

[Marco Atzeri]

New versions 4.0.1-1 of

    octave,
    octave-devel,
    octave-doc

are available in the Cygwin distribution:

CHANGES
Upstream bugfix release
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/bug-fixes-4-0-1.html

Full changes:
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-4.0.html

CYGWIN CHANGES
Additional patch backported by development
to improve pkg compile and install from source
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45369

GENERAL 4.0.x NOTE
there are 2 octave main binaries
         octave-cli      command line inteface
         octave-gui      graphical interface
         octave          default to graphical version

OCTAVE-FORGE NOTE
You need to install with setup the specific forge package
you are looking for.

The update of the global pkg database is now managed
by cygwin setup during the postinstall phase.
A semaphore system is in place to update the database only when needed
and just one time, also when multiple forge packages are added or removed.

DESCRIPTION
The GNU Octave language for numerical computations is a (mostly Matlab (R)
compatible) high-level language, primarily intended for numerical
computations.  It provides a convenient command-line interface for solving
linear and nonlinear problems numerically.

HOMEPAGE
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/


Marco Atzeri

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-4.0.1-1

[Achim Gratz]

Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri <at> gmail.com> writes:
> New versions 4.0.1-1 of
> 
>     octave,

Thís package is apparently missing a dependency on texinfo since it needs
makeinfo to display help.  If there is a way to instead pre-format the
documentation, that'd probably be preferrable to requiring texinfo (which in
turn requires perl).


Regards,
Achim.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-4.0.1-1

[Marco Atzeri]

On 04/04/2016 13:40, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> New versions 4.0.1-1 of
>>
>>      octave,
>
> Thís package is apparently missing a dependency on texinfo since it needs
> makeinfo to display help.  If there is a way to instead pre-format the
> documentation, that'd probably be preferrable to requiring texinfo (which in
> turn requires perl).
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
>

Never noticed.

However,
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v4.0.1/Getting-Help.html#Getting-Help

"The entire text of this manual is available from the Octave prompt via 
the command doc. In addition, the documentation for individual 
user-written functions and variables is also available via the help 
command."


"doc" does not need makeinfo as the documentation is already available
preprocessed in
/usr/share/octave/4.0.1/etc/doc-cache

"help" tries to build the documentation on the fly.
It seems an upstream bug  that does not check that is already available.

Regards
Marco




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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-4.0.1-1

[Achim Gratz]

Marco Atzeri writes:
> "help" tries to build the documentation on the fly.
> It seems an upstream bug  that does not check that is already available.

Well, that too.  But doc also uses info to view, while help just
displays the page in the terminal.


Regards,
Achim.
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