Use matrix concatenation for strings, rather than cstrcat(), for clarity and performance. matrix concatenation is ~80% faster than cstrcat(). * doc/interpreter/strings.txi: Document preference for matrix concatenation as opposed to alternatives. * doc/interpreter/geometryimages.m, doc/interpreter/interpimages.m, doc/interpreter/plotimages.m, doc/interpreter/sparseimages.m, doc/interpreter/splineimages.m, scripts/general/genvarname.m, scripts/general/int2str.m, scripts/general/num2str.m, scripts/help/__makeinfo__.m, scripts/help/help.m, scripts/miscellaneous/copyfile.m, scripts/miscellaneous/dir.m, scripts/miscellaneous/edit.m, scripts/miscellaneous/fact.m, scripts/miscellaneous/fullfile.m, scripts/miscellaneous/mkoctfile.m, scripts/miscellaneous/movefile.m, scripts/miscellaneous/perl.m, scripts/miscellaneous/python.m, scripts/miscellaneous/run.m, scripts/miscellaneous/tempdir.m, scripts/miscellaneous/unpack.m, scripts/pkg/private/configure_make.m, scripts/pkg/private/create_pkgadddel.m, scripts/pkg/private/extract_pkg.m, scripts/pkg/private/get_description.m, scripts/pkg/private/get_forge_pkg.m, scripts/pkg/private/getarch.m, scripts/pkg/private/getarchprefix.m, scripts/pkg/private/install.m, scripts/pkg/private/installed_packages.m, scripts/pkg/private/load_packages_and_dependencies.m, scripts/pkg/private/rebuild.m, scripts/pkg/private/repackage.m, scripts/pkg/private/shell.m, scripts/pkg/private/uninstall.m, scripts/plot/private/__go_draw_axes__.m, scripts/signal/spectral_adf.m, scripts/signal/spectral_xdf.m, scripts/statistics/tests/z_test.m, scripts/statistics/tests/z_test_2.m, scripts/strings/mat2str.m, scripts/strings/strtok.m, scripts/testfun/__run_test_suite__.m, scripts/testfun/assert.m, scripts/testfun/demo.m, scripts/testfun/speed.m, scripts/testfun/test.m, test/eval-catch.tst, test/io.tst, test/try.tst: Replace cstrcat() with matrix concatenation where possible.

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## Copyright (C) 2010 VZLU Prague, a.s.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} prepare_installation (@var{desc}, @var{packdir})
## Undocumented internal function.
## @end deftypefn

function prepare_installation (desc, packdir)
  ## Is there a pre_install to call?
  if (exist (fullfile (packdir, "pre_install.m"), "file"))
    wd = pwd ();
    try
      cd (packdir);
      pre_install (desc);
      cd (wd);
    catch
      cd (wd);
      rethrow (lasterror ());
    end_try_catch
  endif

  ## If the directory "inst" doesn't exist, we create it.
  inst_dir = fullfile (packdir, "inst");
  if (! exist (inst_dir, "dir"))
    [status, msg] = mkdir (inst_dir);
    if (status != 1)
      rmdir (desc.dir, "s");
      error ("the 'inst' directory did not exist and could not be created: %s",
             msg);
    endif
  endif
endfunction