Re: Octave 3.8.1-rc3 release candidate available for ftp

[Pascal Dupuis]

Hello Marco,

great work ! My students will be able to use octave under Windows.

I indeed saw that there was an update on cygwin.  I did some brief
testing over octave + linear algebra package:
1) octave-cli: everything OK
2) /usr/bin/octave --force-gui fails with "octave: failed to exec
'/usr/lib/octave/3.8.0/exec/x86_64-unknown-cygwin/octave-gui'"
On my compiled version, the gui exec is
~/usr/libexec/octave/3.8.0/exec/x86_64-unknown-cygwin/octave-gui.exe;
this program is the only entry under
~/usr/libexec/octave/3.8.0/exec/x86_64-unknown-cygwin
3) The gui client can be launched as "/usr/bin/octave-gui". Octave
scripts run OK; graphs OK too. But the 'less' mechanism, with f.i.
"help pkg", fails. I get the first page, terminated by
-- less -- (f)orward, (b)ack, (q)uit
At this stage, typing " " or "f" cause the screen to scroll up one
line, and the new line either is empty, either contains a single 'f'.
Typing 'ctrl-c' twice permits to abort, and is the only issue. I do
not get this behaviour on my own compiled 3.8.0 version. How can we
detect the differences between the two ?

Best regards

Pascal