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James R. Phillips wrote:
> Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
> 
>>But apparently I can't use octave.
> 
> 
> Hm, actually we wouldn't want to lose such a knowledgeable user.  We need users
> like you in order to improve octave.
> 
> Would this work for you?  Prior to putting miktex at the front of your path,
> say in your .profile, it should be possible to save the unmodified path in an
> environmental variable, say PATH_FOR_OCTAVE.
> 
> Then write a short shell script named "octave" to start octave, and put it in
> /usr/local/bin; something like
> 
> =======
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> export PATH=$PATH_FOR_OCTAVE
> /usr/bin/octave
> =======
> 
> When typing "octave" from the command line, the shell script should be found in
> the path prior to the octave binary in /usr/bin. octave/octave-forge should
> then use the cygwin-native tetex binaries.  I don't see any reason why this
> wouldn't work.
> 
> Hope you don't give up on octave.
> 
> jrp
> 
> 

This doesn't solve the core problem that configure will pick up the 
presence of cygwin's tetex and expect it - the cygwin tetex install 
would need to be masked entirely in order to use miktex and not have 
configure expect tetex..


Chris

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