OCTAVE-CONFIG

NAME

octave-config - GNU Octave component and library information retrieval

octave-config [--m-site-dir] [--oct-site-dir] [-v|--version] [-h|-?|--help]

octave-config is a tool to obtain directory information for .oct and .m files for octave(1).

octave-config accepts the following options:

--m-site-dir

Display the main directory for local, or site-specific, .m script files.

--oct-site-dir

Display the main directory for local, or site-specific, .oct dynamic-link libraries.

-p|--print VAR

Print the default value of the Octave configuration variable VAR. Recognized variables are:

:     CANONICAL_HOST_TYPE    LOCALFCNFILEDIR
    DEFAULT_PAGER          LOCALFCNFILEPATH
    ARCHLIBDIR             LOCALOCTFILEDIR
    BINDIR                 LOCALOCTFILEPATH
    DATADIR                LOCALSTARTUPFILEDIR
    EXEC_PREFIX            LOCALVERARCHLIBDIR
    FCNFILEDIR             LOCALVERFCNFILEDIR
    FCNFILEPATH            LOCALVEROCTFILEDIR
    IMAGEDIR               MAN1DIR
    IMAGEPATH              MAN1EXT
    INCLUDEDIR             MANDIR
    INFODIR                OCTFILEDIR
    INFOFILE               OCTINCLUDEDIR
    LIBDIR                 OCTLIBDIR
    LIBEXECDIR             PREFIX
    LIBEXECDIR             STARTUPFILEDIR
    LOCALARCHLIBDIR        VERSION

-v|--version

Display the version number of octave(1).

-h|-?|--help

Display a help page about octave-config

This manual page was contributed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution but may be used by others.