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.TH OCTAVE-CONFIG 1 "4 February 2011" "GNU Octave"
.SH NAME
octave-config - GNU Octave component and library information retrieval
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBoctave-config\fP [\fIOPTION\fP]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B octave-config
is a tool to obtain directory information for \fB.oct\fP and \fB.m\fP files for
.BR octave (1).
.SH OPTIONS
.TP 8
.B \-\-m-site-dir
Display the main directory for local, or site-specific, \fB.m\fP script files.
.TP
.B \-\-oct-site-dir
Display the main directory for local, or site-specific, \fB.oct\fP dynamic-link libraries.
.TP
.B \-p \fIVAR\fP\fR,\fB \-\-print \fIVAR\fP
Print the default value of the Octave configuration variable \fIVAR\fP.
Recognized variables are:
.RS
.Vb
   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
.Ve
.RE
.TP
.B \-v\fR,\fB \-\-version
Display the version number of 
.BR octave (1).
.TP
\fB\-h\fP, \fB\-?\fP, \fB\-\-help\fP
Print help message.
.SH 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.