Re: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Carlo de Falco <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 7 Jun 2010, at 12:57, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Carlo de Falco <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 7 Jun 2010, at 12:04, Michael Goffioul wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. Obviously, I'll be glad if others can check my code and possibly
>>>>> improve it.
>>>>
>>>> Just a small improvement suggestion, for anybody's willing to do it,
>>>> it would be nice to get the list of available packages using some "list"
>>>> flag in pkg.
>>>>
>>>> This seems a logical extension, as you're not gonna necessarily
>>>> be browsing octave-forge pages to download the packages you want
>>>> to install, so you might not know what packages are available.
>>>>
>>>> Michael.
>>>
>>> I cannot contribute this functionality myself at the moment as I am
>>> unable
>>> to build the developement version of Octave on my system.
>>
>> I think you should be able to build now, the missing file is online.
>
> what missing file do you refer to?

Ah, sorry, I'm an idiot. I forgot to check a source in on Friday and I
thought that was the problem. Obviously not.

> The problem I have with building developent sources (and which has been
> going on for quite a while now)
> is that I am unable to run the octave binary as I always get:
> $ ./run-octave
> Bus error
>
> this makes the build process stop at the stage where the docs are produced.
> I'm on Mac OSX Leopard compiling with gcc/gfortran 4.0
>
> c.
>



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