Re: Problem compiling dispatch.cc for octave 2.1.73 (i386-pc-solaris2.10)

[Paul Kienzle]

Nikhil,

dispatch was removed from octave-forge in the latest release since
it has been added to octave 2.9.x.  You need to get an earlier release
of octave-forge for octave 2.1.73 support.

- Paul

On Jul 21, 2006, at 4:54 AM, Mulley, Nikhil wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Recently I got octave - 2.1.73 installed on my Solaris 10 system ,
> compiled with a combination of Studio-11.0 Fortran compiler and GNU C++
> compiler v3.4.3.
>
> address@hidden:/u/mulleyn>/usr/local/octave-2.1.73/bin/octave
> GNU Octave, version 2.1.73 (i386-pc-solaris2.10).
> Copyright (C) 2006 John W. Eaton.
> This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
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>
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>
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>
> octave:1>
>
>
> I have a problem getting the octave-forge installed along with.
> I put the following in my ~/.octaverc file
>
> address@hidden:/u/mulleyn>cat .octaverc
> LOADPATH = [
> '/usr/local/octave-2.1.73//oct:/usr/local/octave-2.1.73///:', LOADPATH
> ];
> EXEC_PATH = [ '/usr/local/octave-2.1.73//bin:', EXEC_PATH ];
> address@hidden:/u/mulleyn>
>
>
> And I get the following ...
>
> address@hidden:/u/mulleyn>/usr/local/octave-2.1.73/bin/octave
> GNU Octave, version 2.1.73 (i386-pc-solaris2.10).
> Copyright (C) 2006 John W. Eaton.
> This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
> There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.
>
> Additional information about Octave is available at
> http://www.octave.org.
>
> Please contribute if you find this software useful.
> For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html
>
> Report bugs to <address@hidden> (but first, please read
> http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful 
> report).
>
> error: `dispatch' undefined near line 2 column 1
> error: near line 2 of file `/usr/local/octave-2.1.73/comm//PKG_ADD'
> error: source: error sourcing file
> `/usr/local/octave-2.1.73/comm//PKG_ADD'
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 1, column 10
> error: near line 1 of file `/u/mulleyn/.octaverc'
> octave:1>
>
>
> I assumed that this could be due to the lack of the dispatch
> function/module in the octave installation and grabbed dispatch.cc from
> the http://octave.sourceforge.net/index/index.html
> When I tried to compile in the dispatch.cc with the mkoctfile, I get 
> the
> following..
>
> address@hidden:/u/mulleyn>mkoctfile dispatch.cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> dispatch.cc: In function `octave_value_list Fbuiltin(const
> octave_value_list&, int)':
> /usr/local/octave-2.1.73/include/octave-2.1.73/octave/defun-int.h:37:
> error: too few arguments to function `void print_usage(const
> std::string&, bool)'
> dispatch.cc:328: error: at this point in file
> dispatch.cc: In function `octave_value_list Fdispatch(const
> octave_value_list&, int)':
> /usr/local/octave-2.1.73/include/octave-2.1.73/octave/defun-int.h:37:
> error: too few arguments to function `void print_usage(const
> std::string&, bool)'
> dispatch.cc:450: error: at this point in file
> address@hidden:/u/mulleyn>
>
>
> I tried hard in understanding what this could mean. It would be of real
> great help if you could please let me know the fixes.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Nikhil
>
>
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