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generate convenience libraries for new parse-tree and interpfcn subdirectories * src/Makefile.am (liboctinterp_la_SOURCES): Include octave.cc in the list, not $(DIST_SRC). (liboctinterp_la_LIBADD): Include octave-value/liboctave-value.la, parse-tree/libparse-tree.la, interp-core/libinterp-core.la, interpfcn/libinterpfcn.la, and corefcn/libcorefcn.la in the list. * src/interp-core/module.mk (noinst_LTLIBRARIES): Add interp-core/libinterp-core.la to the list. (interp_core_libinterp_core_la_SOURCES): New variable. * src/interpfcn/module.mk (noinst_LTLIBRARIES): Add interpfcn/libinterpfcn.la to the list. (interpfcn_libinterpfcn_la_SOURCES): New variable. * src/parse-tree/module.mk (noinst_LTLIBRARIES): Add parse-tree/libparse-tree.la to the list. (parse_tree_libparse_tree_la_SOURCES): New variable. * src/octave-value/module.mk (noinst_LTLIBRARIES): Add octave-value/liboctave-value.la to the list. (octave_value_liboctave_value_la_SOURCES): New variable.
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:04:30 -0400
parents c6ae30f73946
children 333243133364
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## Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Julian Schnidder
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
## your option) any later version.
##
## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
## General Public License for more details.
##
## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {@var{output} =} perl (@var{scriptfile})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{output} =} perl (@var{scriptfile}, @var{argument1}, @var{argument2}, @dots{})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{output}, @var{status}] =} perl (@dots{})
## Invoke Perl script @var{scriptfile}, possibly with a list of command line
## arguments.  Return output in @var{output} and optional status in
## @var{status}.  If @var{scriptfile} is not an absolute file name it is
## is searched for in the current directory and then in the Octave loadpath.
## @seealso{system, python}
## @end deftypefn

function [output, status] = perl (scriptfile = "-e ''", varargin)

  ## VARARGIN is intialized to {}(1x0) if no additional arguments are
  ## supplied, so there is no need to check for it, or provide an
  ## initial value in the argument list of the function definition.

  if (ischar (scriptfile)
      && (   (nargin == 1 && ! isempty (scriptfile))
          || (nargin != 1 && iscellstr (varargin))))
    if (! strcmp (scriptfile(1:2), "-e"))
      ## Attempt to find file in loadpath.  No effect for absolute filenames.
      scriptfile = file_in_loadpath (scriptfile);
    endif

    [status, output] = system (cstrcat ("perl ", scriptfile,
                                        sprintf (" %s", varargin{:})));
  else
    error ("perl: invalid arguments");
  endif

endfunction