Re: Octave.app 3.0.2 for Mac OS X (BBEdit Case 102061)

[Vic Norton]

Hi Tom (and BBEdit Support),

I just downloaded Octave.app 3.0.2 from SourceForge. I am still  
getting the extraneous error message (which I'll refer to as [E]):

warning: load_path: ./Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/ 
libexec/octave/3.0.2/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.1: No such file  
or directory

when and only when I run certain octave scripts directly from BBEdit.  
This warning message never appears with versions of Octave.app  
earlier than 3.0.1.

I have narrowed the problem down to the cd function (I think). A  
simple script will illustrate the point:
   pwd
   cd
   pwd
   cd
   pwd
   cd
   pwd
   cd
   pwd

The output from this script (other than a "GNU Octave" preamble)  
should be
   ans = /
   ans = /Users/vic
   ans = /Users/vic
   ans = /Users/vic
   ans = /Users/vic
(with the appropriate home directory substituted for /Users/vic).  
This is the output I get when I run the script in octave or "in  
Terminal" from BBEdit. It is also the Octave.app-3.0.0-or-earlier  
output when the script is run directly from BBEdit. However, the  
output from Octave.app 3.0.1 or 3.0.2, when run directly from BBEdit,  
has 4 [E] error messages tagged onto the end.

This [E] problem is clearly a BBEdit problem since it only happens  
when the octave of Octave.app is run directly from BBEdit. But the  
[E] problem is also a current Octave.app problem since it only  
happens with Octave.app 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 (and not with Octave.app  
3.0.0, 2.9.18, 2.9.17. 2.9.16, 2.9.15, ...).

It would be great if either you and your Octave.app cohorts or the  
BBEdit people could figure out what is causing the [E] problem!

Regards,

Vic Norton
Mac OS X 10.4.11
2.1 GHz PowerPC G5
BBedit 8.7.2 (260)

P.S. To BBEdit Support (in general) and Patrick Woolsey (in particular):
You can test Octave.app very easily. Just download the  
appropriate .dmg file from <http://octave.sourceforge.net>, open the  
disk image, and drop Octave.app into your Applications folder. Then  
run the above script with the shebang line
   #!/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave
Or you can run Octave.app from any other folder by modifying the  
shebag line appropriately.

On Aug 23, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Thomas Treichl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have uploaded the compressed disc images *.dmg including  
> Octave.app 3.0.2
> for PPC Mac OS X and i386 Mac OS X to the SourceForge's server. You  
> can get
> it from http://octave.sourceforge.net. Please read the Readme.html  
> file that
> comes with the *.dmg about 'Installation', 'FAQ', 'Limitations', etc.
>
> I'm very happy to see more than 7.700 downloads over the past 4  
> months for
> Octave.app 3.0.1. However, if you like GNU Octave then please also  
> think
> about of making a contribution to the Octave Core Development team. A
> description can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ 
> funding.html.
>
> Recent changes:
>
> - the latest stable Octave 3.0.2 sources available have been used  
> to build
>    these binaries,
>
> - Gnuplot.app 4.2.3 can be found in the Extras directory of the *.dmg.
>    Again, please read the Readme.html file about 'Installation',
>    'Limitations', 'FAQ', etc. for Gnuplot.app of that compressed  
> disc image.
>
> - the checksums of the *.dmg are
>    - MD5 (octave-3.0.2-ppc.dmg)  = ddb82873f115b05bc63cdfc94715559f
>    - MD5 (octave-3.0.2-i386.dmg) = 2530999a5cd50a8628345bcf8d064edf
>
> Regards,
>
>    Thomas
>
>
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