Re: cs-list errors and Ghostscript warning when trying to print

[Richard Campbell]

On Jan 30, 2011, at 3:53 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 29-Jan-2011, Richard Campbell wrote:
> 
> | In my build of Octave 3.3.54 I get the following during 'make check'
> | 
> | Integrated test scripts:
> | 
> | invalid assignment to cs-list outside multiple assignment.
> | 
> | The build is as described earlier for Mac OSX with minimal dependencies.
> 
> I don't see that error.  It may be that it is happening because you
> haven't installed all the dependencies, but we try to make the tests
> run anyway, just skipping the ones that can't work because of missing
> dependencies.  So will you try to debug where it is coming from?
> The first set of "Integrated test scripts" that are normally executed
> are from the file src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/besselj.cc.  To run them outside
> of "make check", please try the following
> 
>  ./run-octave
>  ...
>  octave:1> cd /src/tree/directory/src/DLD-FUNTIONS
>  octave:2> test besselj.cc
> 
> (where /src/tree/directory is wherever your top-level Octave source
> tree is) and let us know what happens.
> 
> | When I try to print, I get:
> | 
> | octave:2> print('-dpng','test.png')
> | warning: print.m: ghostscript not found in EXEC_PATH.
> | warning: print.m: Ghostscript binary is not available.
> | warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
> | warning: print.m: fig2dev binary is not available.
> | warning: print.m: pstoedit binary is not available.
> | error: invalid assignment to cs-list outside multiple assignment.
> | error: matrix cannot be indexed with {
> | error: evaluating argument list element number 3
> | error: called from:
> | error:   /Users/campbell/Downloads/octave-3.3.54/scripts/plot/print.m at 
> line 377, column 9
> | 
> | The Ghostscript warning is confusing because I have libpng installed, and 
> twice during 'configure' it is stated that
> | 
> | configure: WARNING: I didn't find ghostscript, but it's only a problem if 
> you need to reconstruct figures for the manual
> 
> I think this message is incorrect now.  Previously, we only used
> ghostscript to generate some output formats when building the Octave
> documentation.  Now it is used in printing as well, to convert PS to
> various formats.
> 
> I changed the configure warning to be
> 
>  I didn't find ghostscript, so reconstructing figures for the manual
>  will fail, and saving graphics in some output formats will fail when
>  using Octave
> 
> jwe

Okay, after installing Ghostscript (which builds fine on OSX with ./configure 
&& make && sudo make install, no funny stuff) that warning alone goes away, 
leaving:

octave:4> print('-dpng','test.png')
warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
warning: print.m: fig2dev binary is not available.
warning: print.m: pstoedit binary is not available.
error: invalid assignment to cs-list outside multiple assignment.
error: matrix cannot be indexed with {
error: evaluating argument list element number 3
error: called from:
error:   /Users/campbell/Downloads/octave-3.3.54/scripts/plot/print.m at line 
377, column 9