Re: problems in installing arkpack pacage with octave forge

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paolo Giorda on 5/27/2009 5:01 PM:
> Dear Sir,
> I am Paolo Giorda and I am avresarcher at the ISI Institute in Torino -
> Italy
> I have just installed the latest version of octave forge on my laptop
> (windows xp machine)
> by running the windows installer that i found
> at the page
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/
> i have chosen to download the following version
> http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=2888&filename=Octave-3.0.5_i686-pc-mingw32_gcc-4.3.0_setup.exe&a=64287154

I wonder if it would be easier for you to download a pre-built version of
octave.  For example, the Cygwin environment has an option to use Octave;
see cygwin.com for details.

>> pkg install arpack-1.0.7.tar.gz
> : error: working directory cannot be determined
> error: the configure script returned the following error:
> as_func_success failed.
> No shell found that supports shell functions.

What are you using to provide a POSIX-like shell on Windows?  Again, my
recommendation would be to use cygwin, which provides a working port of
bash and does not suffer from this problem in the case where a configure
script needs to run.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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