[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53938] Windows Octave doesn't wait for --eval statements to complete

[John Donoghue]

Follow-up Comment #17, bug #53938 (project octave):

statistics is overriding octave.

I created the octave changes patch from the stable branch so at least it
should merge cleanly.


However .....


I just tried the strings package which I see has $(shell $(OCTAVE)) call in
its make file and it fails at that point because it is running in a bash 
shell and do doesn't know the DOC commands used in bat files



>> pkg install -verbose -forge strings
mkdir (C:\Users\JOHN\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-MI6SEN)
untar (C:\Users\JOHN\strings-1.2.0.tar.gz,
C:\Users\JOHN\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-MI6SEN)
C:/Octave/OCTAVE~4.0/bin/octave-5.0.0.bat: line 1: @echo: command not found
C:/Octave/OCTAVE~4.0/bin/octave-5.0.0.bat: line 2: Rem: command not found
C:/Octave/OCTAVE~4.0/bin/octave-5.0.0.bat: line 9: syntax error near
unexpected token `('
C:/Octave/OCTAVE~4.0/bin/octave-5.0.0.bat: line 9: `for %%I in ("%OCT_HOME%")
do set OCT_HOME=%%~sI'
make: Entering directory `/tmp/oct-MI6SEN/strings-1.2.0/src'
C:/Octave/OCTAVE~4.0/bin/mkoctfile-5.0.0.exe --verbose  -o pcregexp.oct
pcregexp.cc
g++ -c -I/home/johnd/mxe-octave/build-64/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include 
-IC:\Octave\OCTAVE~4.0\include\octave-5
.0.0\octave\.. -IC:\Octave\OCTAVE~4.0\include\octave-5.0.0\octave
-IC:\Octave\OCTAVE~4.0\include   -fopenmp -g -
O2    pcregexp.cc -o C:/Users/JOHN/AppData/Local/Temp/oct-gpBQRQ.o
pcregexp.cc: In function 'octave_value_list Fpcregexp(const
octave_value_list&, int)':



And to make more fun,  from octave, running system("octave.bat") works fine as
it is then using the windows shell.

Im not sure what other repercusions there would be if we just change the shell
variable in the scripts


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