From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Dec 24 05:16:18 2003
Subject: Re: Failure (Re: How to use octave-forge?)
From: Per Persson <persquare at mac dot com>
To: Vic Norton <vic at norton dot name>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:15:02 +0100

Vic,
I've shadowed your install on a fresh 10.3 and there is definitely  
something fishy going on. I can't get the .oct files to run either :-(
Seems like a 10.3 issue.
I'll look into this again in a few days, and get back to you when I  
have a better grasp on the problem.

/Per

On Dec 23, 2003, at 20:16, Vic Norton wrote:

> Thanks for all the advice about installing octave-forge functions. I am
> sorry to report that my installation efforts have not met with success.
> My octave 2.1.50 has no trouble reading newly installed octave-forge
> m-files, but it cannot execute any oct-files.
>
> This note is rather longish. I'm sorry about that. Throw it away if you
> will. I am just trying to describe my situation accurately. Maybe  
> someone
> can tell me what is going on.
>
>               *              *              *
>
> I installed the "octave-forge-2003.06.02" package in "/opt/local",  
> where
> my octave resides:
>
>    octave-forge-2003.06.02$ ./configure --prefix=/oct/local
>
> Everything went where it was supposed to. After the installation, all
> "m" files worked but no "oct" files worked. And "oct" files come
> first in my LOADPATH:
>
>    LOADPATH =  
> /opt/local/libexec/octave/2.1.50/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0/ 
> octave-forge:...
>
>
> There was something peculiar about this installation. Both the tests
> failed to execute:
>
>    octave-forge-2003.06.02$ make check
>    octave -q batch_test.m
>    warning: batch_test.m: no such file or directory
>    make: *** [check] Error 1
>
>    octave-forge-2003.06.02$ make icheck
>    octave -q interact_test.m
>    warning: interact_test.m: no such file or directory
>    make: *** [icheck] Error 1
>
> And the files "batch_test.m" and "interact_test.m" were definitely in
> the "octave-forge-2003.06.02" directory.
>
>
> So I decided to run "batch_test" from octave interactively. After using
> my newly created "addpath" function:
>
>    octave> addpath("~/Download/octave-forge-2003.06.02");
>
> to put the "octave-forge-2003.06.02" directory in my LOADPATH, I ran
>
>    octave> batch_test;
>
> The output was
>
>    [main/optim]
>    >leval
>    error: `leval' undefined near line 8 column 24
>    error: evaluating argument list element number 1
>    error: near line 8 of file  
> `/Users/vic/Download/octave-forge-2003.06.02/batch_test.m'
>
> The script "batch_test.m" had failed at the line
>
>    disp(">leval"); assert(leval("acos", list(-1)), pi, 100*eps);
>
>
> What's the hell is going on here? "leval.cc" had clearly been compiled
> in the make process:
>
>    mkoctfile -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 -v leval.cc
>    g++ -c -no-cpp-precomp -I/opt/local/include  
> -I/opt/local/include/octave-2.1.50  
> -I/opt/local/include/octave-2.1.50/octave -I/opt/local/include -g -O2  
> -Wall -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 leval.cc -o leval.o
>    g++ -bundle -bundle_loader /opt/local/bin/octave-2.1.50 -o  
> leval.oct leval.o -L/opt/local/lib/octave-2.1.50 -loctave -lcruft  
> -loctinterp -framework vecLib
>
> And "leval" was apparently compiled right there in
> "~/Download/octave-forge-2003.06.02/main/optim", where octave was
> supposed to see it:
>
>    optim$ ls -l
>    ...
>    -rw-r--r--  1 vic  vic     1674 13 Mar  2002 leval.cc
>    -rw-r--r--  1 vic  vic   255744 23 Dec 12:17 leval.o
>    -rwxr-xr-x  1 vic  vic  1391620 23 Dec 12:17 leval.oct*
>
> So why couldn't octave see "lp.oct"? Whu can't it see any newly  
> compiled
> oct files.
>
>
> This whole situation is VERY FRUSTRATING!!! Any insights into what my
> problem is would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Vic
>
>
>
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