OCTAVE-CONFIG

octave-config - GNU Octave component and library information retrieval

octave-config [OPTION]...

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

−−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             LOCALAPIOCTFILEDIR
   ARCHLIBDIR              LOCALARCHLIBDIR
   BINDIR                  LOCALFCNFILEDIR
   CANONICAL_HOST_TYPE     LOCALOCTFILEDIR
   DATADIR                 LOCALSTARTUPFILEDIR
   DATAROOTDIR             LOCALVERARCHLIBDIR
   DEFAULT_PAGER           LOCALVERFCNFILEDIR
   EXEC_PREFIX             LOCALVEROCTFILEDIR
   FCNFILEDIR              MAN1DIR
   IMAGEDIR                MAN1EXT
   INCLUDEDIR              MANDIR
   INFODIR                 OCTFILEDIR
   INFOFILE                OCTINCLUDEDIR
   LIBDIR                  OCTLIBDIR
   LIBEXECDIR              PREFIX
   LOCALAPIARCHLIBDIR      STARTUPFILEDIR
   LOCALAPIFCNFILEDIR      VERSION

−v, −−version

Display the version number of octave(1).

−h, −?, −−help

Print help message.

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.