From maintainers-request at octave dot org Tue Mar 15 21:01:20 2005
Subject: Re: Octave 2.9.0 available for ftp
From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dasergatskov at gmail dot com>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:08:21 -0700

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:14:51 -0500, John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> wrote:
> Octave 2.9.0 is now available for ftp from ftp.octave.org in the
...

For some reason ./configure on Solaris now wants to use "KPIC" as 
CXXPICFLAG

There are some problems with octave-forge (on i386 / linux / redhat FC3).
octave-forge-2004.11.16/main/general/mark_for_deletion.cc
wants <octave/pt-plot.h> which is not here. I do not even know
what do we need mark_for_deletion for, so I just commented it out from
the Makefile and did not investigate it further.

print.m is broken:

octave:1> s=rand(10)
octave:2> plot(s)
octave:3> print("-depsc2","xxx.ps")
warning: in fopen near line 55, column 3:
warning: fopen: default open mode is now binary

gnuplot> set output \"xxx.ps\" ;
                    ^
         line 0: invalid character \

parse error:

  syntax error

>>> ;
    ^

error: could not parse plot command
parse error:

  syntax error

>>> ;
    ^

error: could not parse plot command
error: called from `print' in file
`/usr/local/share/octave/2.9.0/site/m/octave-forge/plot/print.m'
--------

Looking on print.m, it looks like it does:

 eval (sprintf ("gset output \"%s\";", origout));

That commands works in octave just fine:

octave:1> origout="xxx.ps"
origout = xxx.ps
octave:2> eval (sprintf ("gset output \"%s\";", origout));

So I am baffled here.

Dmitri.
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