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Re: Problems running octave on osx 10.6.8


From: George Profenza
Subject: Re: Problems running octave on osx 10.6.8
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:54:20 +0100

Thank you again Ben, using 

setenv GNUTERM x11

worked like charm.

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

On Aug 23, 2012, at 6:07 AM, George Profenza wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 22, 2012, at 6:38 AM, George Profenza wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I had octave running yesterday fine with gnuplot/aquaterm as well.
>> > I haven't changed anything, but now I'm getting this error:
>> >
>> > dyld: Symbol not found: __cg_DGifGetLine
>> >   Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/ImageIO
>> >   Expected in: /opt/local/lib/libGIF.dylib
>> >  in /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/ImageIO
>> > Trace/BPT trap
>> >
>> > I had similar errors for libTIFF and libJPEG from the bundled Octave.app, but never from the Macports install and never with libGIF.
>> >
>> > Any hints on what might be wrong ?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > George
>>
>> I haven't seen this before.  Are you able to isolate the Octave command that triggered this? (maybe I can duplicate it?)
>>
>> Ben
>
> Ok, I've found the culprit and it's my fault.
> I was trying to install Octave XML Toolbox
> and ran into errors when running make.
>
> The path to xerces was not found so I added this to .bash_profile:
> export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> Removing that line resolved my issue.
>
> This leads me to further questions I should probably move to a separate thread:
>  - How can I work with XML data in Octave ?
>   (I've found and installed the octave-miscellaneous port which should have xml support,
>   but I don't know where to look for docs. I've tried calling xml_load, but no joy).
>  - How can I make the plots somewhat interactive ?
>    (A while back when I had an older version of octave installed and it was windowing through X11 I could zoom/pan 2D plots and
>    orbit around 3D plots. Is this possible with gnuplot+Aquaterm ? If so, how ?)
>
> Regards,
> George

You can either use Gnuplot's x11 terminal by ...

        setenv GNUTERM x11

or switch to the OpenGL backend.

        graphics_toolkit fltk

In either case, rotating and panning will work.

Ben




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