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 =Octave on Cygwin=
-== Octave 3.6.4 on cygwin==
+== Octave 3.8.1 on cygwin==
 *'''Web-Site:''' http://cygwin.com
 *'''Maintainer:''' Marco Atzeri
-*'''Latest release:''' 2013-02-23
+*'''Latest release:''' 2014-03-17
 *Latest packages:
-:octave-3.6.4-1
-:octave-forge-octave-forge-20130223-1
+:octave-3.8.1-1
+:Its announce on cygwin mailing list[http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2014-03/msg00009.html]
+:octave-forge is not anymore monolithic but splitted in the several package
+:Its announce on cygwin mailing list[http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2014-02/msg00017.html]
 *To install :
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 :  These 2 package will pull all the functional Xserver.
 :  Otherwise the only graphics will be ASCI art ;-)
-*The fltk graphics_toolkit is available, but due to a bug in Xserver WGL (MS integrated OpenGL implementation)
-:  as reported
-:  https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2013-June/059461.html
-:you have two choices, for a full functional graphics:
-: 1) use the gnuplot graphics_toolkit
-: 2) run the Xserver with "Xwin -multiwindow -nowgl"
-: Number 1 is current default
 ===Notes===
-*Not needed anymore, but just in case you want to try one cygwin snapshot.
-:HOWTO install a cygwin snapshot:
-:download <code>cygwin1-20130619.dll.bz2</code> (current last) from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
-    bunzip2 cygwin1-20130619.dll.bz2
-    cp cygwin1-20130619.dll cygwin1.dll
-    cp /bin/cygwin1.dll /bin/cygwin1.dll_backup
-:exit all cygwin processes and from windows explorer
-:copy the cygwin1.dll snapshot to
-    c:\cygwin\bin
-    (or in the equivalent directory of your cygwin installation).
-*For general build notes, see <code>etc/README.Cygwin</code>.
 *When building from development source (default branch)
-    "make check"
+:    "make check"
 :passes almost all the tests.
 :Only, and not substantial, failures are:
-     /pub/hg/octave/src/data.cc : 8 failures due to different handling of complex Inf on sort
+     <nowiki>/pub/hg/octave/src/data.cc : 8 failures due to different handling of complex Inf on sort
      /pub/hg/octave/src/syscalls.cc: 1 failure on fork. This disappears when octave is installed
      /pub/hg/octave/scripts/sparse/svds.m: 1 failure due to test sensitivity on starting point. See
-     https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2011-September/024715.html
+     https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2011-September/024715.html</nowiki>
 *To build from cygwin source package, you need to install "cygport" and the relevant development libraries
-    $ tar -xvjf octave-3.6.4-1-src.tar.bz2
+     <nowiki>$ tar -xvjf octave-3.8.1-1-src.tar.bz2
-    gl2ps-print.patch
+     $ cygport octave-3.8.1-1.cygport almostall</nowiki>
-    octave-3.6.4-1.cygport
-    octave-3.6.4-1.cygwin.patch
-    octave-3.6.4-1.src.patch
-    octave-3.6.4.tar.bz2
-    $ cygport octave-3.6.4-1.cygport almostall
 :see cygport documentation for further info.