octave-config(1) General Commands Manual octave-config(1)
NAME
octave-config - GNU Octave component and library information retrieval
SYNOPSIS
octave-config [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
octave-config is a tool to obtain directory information for .oct and .m
files for octave(1).
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 VAR, --print VAR
Print the default value of the Octave configuration variable
VAR. Recognized variables are:
API_VERSION LOCALARCHLIBDIR
ARCHLIBDIR LOCALFCNFILEDIR
BINDIR LOCALOCTFILEDIR
CANONICAL_HOST_TYPE LOCALSTARTUPFILEDIR
DATADIR LOCALVERARCHLIBDIR
DATAROOTDIR LOCALVERFCNFILEDIR
DEFAULT_PAGER LOCALVEROCTFILEDIR
EXEC_PREFIX MAN1DIR
EXEEXT MAN1EXT
FCNFILEDIR MANDIR
IMAGEDIR OCTAVE_EXEC_HOME
INCLUDEDIR OCTAVE_HOME
INFODIR OCTDATADIR
INFOFILE OCTDOCDIR
LIBDIR OCTFILEDIR
LIBEXECDIR OCTFONTSDIR
LOCALAPIARCHLIBDIR OCTINCLUDEDIR
LOCALAPIFCNFILEDIR OCTLIBDIR
LOCALAPIOCTFILEDIR STARTUPFILEDIR
LOCALAPIPKGDIR VERSION
-v, --version
Display the version number of octave(1).
-h, -?, --help
Print help message.
AUTHOR
John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
This manual page was contributed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution but may be used by others.
SEE ALSO
octave(1).
GNU Octave 3 January 2014 octave-config(1)
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