Re: libtool and mkoctfile

[John W. Eaton]

On  4-Nov-2009, Benjamin Lindner wrote:

| Aside from the question of unix-sh-interpreter yes or no, I disagree
| to using libtool, at least for windows platform. Simply because
| libtool does not work properly for windows.

If there are problems with libtool, then I think we should report them
and try to get the problems fixed.  That way everyone using libtool
benefits.

| At the current stage, windows binaries of octave do not require any
| privileges for installing a default user (who is not administrator)
| on windows doesn't have.

Does installing the Msys shell and associated utilities (cp, mv, rm,
etc.) require administrator privileges?

| No, perl's not included. Now I'm curious. Which octave function is that?

The perl function.

jwe