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bug #59236: Wrong installation locations in manual

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Thu 08 Oct 2020 09:12:34 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Documentation Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Documentation
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Reissner Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  * Closed Release:  * 6.0.90
Operating System:  * Any Fixed Release:  None
Planned Release:  None
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Fri 09 Oct 2020 07:43:21 PM UTC, comment #2: 

The directories used for installation of libraries and other files may all be customized by someone when configuring and building Octave.  See the descriptions of variables like prefix, libdir, infodir, etc. in the output of "configure --help" if you are building Octave from source.  The directories used when your copy was configured are also stored in the Octave binary.  See the output of the _octave_config_info_ command in Octave.

If there is any issue here, maybe it is just that we could improve the documentation?

Long ago, we edited the values of the local configuration into the documentation sources.  But that causes another set of problems.  Not only does it complicate the build system, but then docs found online may not have the same directories as your local installation.

Maybe what we need is to be clearer that these directory names shown in the manual may be different in your local installation and show how to find the actual location in case the installation was cusomized?

John W. Eaton <jwe>
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Fri 09 Oct 2020 01:18:34 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Thank you for your report.
I updated the documentation here:
https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/68e6e6f083f3

I'm not sure how you installed Octave. But I don't have the folders "lib64/octave" and "share/licenses/octave" on my machine.

Closing as fixed.

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
Group administrator
Thu 08 Oct 2020 09:12:34 PM UTC, original submission:  

All issues apply to manual of octave 5.2.0
The following paths mentioned do not exist in my installation:

- page 196: octave-home/lib/version
- page 218: octave-home/lib/octave/version/m
- page  22: octave-home/info/
- page  22: octave-home/libexec/

Strange enough, in my octave-home which seems to be /usr,
not /usr/local,
the following files/folders have name octave***
but are not described in the manual
- lib64/octave
- share/licenses/octave
- include/octave-5.2.0/octave

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2020-10-09 mmuetzel StatusNone Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Release5.2.0 6.0.90
        Summarywrong piece of information on octave-home Wrong installation locations in manual

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