[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41131] Octave history written to C:\ when installing netcdf/odepkg/windows packages

[Mike Miller]

Update of bug #41131 (project octave):

                 Summary: Attempt to wite to different history_file location
(while instaling OF package) => Octave history written to C: when installing
netcdf/odepkg/windows packages

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Follow-up Comment #6:

The error occurs because octave is executed from within the configure scripts
for these packages but the --no-history option is not used.

The following is what I see in a Windows XP command window:


C:\> cd \Octave\Octave-4.0.0-rc1\bin
C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.0-rc1\bin> bash
bash-3.1$ echo history_file | ./octave -qf
ans = C:\.octave_hist

bash-3.1$ echo "tilde_expand('~')" | ./octave -qf
ans = C:\



This is the environment that the Octave interpreter is run in from the
configure scripts (being run by bash) when packages are built on Windows.

This should be fixed by adding the --no-history (or -H) options to the octave
command lines used when building these packages.

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