Bug#416046: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#416046: octave2.9: pathdef doesn't include dir with info-emacs-info and info-emacs-octave-help

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Tue Mar 27 19:37:55 CET 2007


package octave2.9
tags 416046 moreinfo
thanks

* Pascal A. Dupuis <Pascal.Dupuis at worldonline.be> [2007-03-24 11:55]:

> Package: octave2.9
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> while trying to understand why the info mode didn't work as expected in 
> octave2.9 running under emacs, I found that the required "programs" 
> (shell scripts calling gnudoit), info-emacs-info  & info-emacs-octave-help, 
> are placed under 
> /usr/lib/octave/2.9.9/exec/i486-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> This dir does not appear in pathdef, so both functions are unknown. 
> Could you please solve it ?

I am puzzled by this bug report.  The path returned by pathdef() is used
only for finding *.m and *.oct files and not the executables in
/usr/lib/octave/<version>/exec/<arch>.  BTW, the following works perfectly
for me:

$ sudo apt-get install emacs21 gnuserv octave2.9 octave2.9-info
$ emacs -eval "(gnuserv-start)" &
$ octave2.9
octave2.9:1> info_program ("info-emacs-info")
octave2.9:2> doc

I see then the info directory in my emacs frame.  Does this work for you?

I may have misunderstood your problem.  At any rate, I am tagging this bug
report "moreinfo", meaning that if we do not receive further informations in
a reasonable time frame I will close this bug report.

-- 
Rafael




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