Re: building octave 2.9.5 on Tiger

[Daniel Oberhoff]

Hi,

Ok, I checked, and all the symlinks are to octave 2.9.6. I had some  
parts of the older installation lying around which i now deleted (in / 
usr/local/share/octave and /usr/local/libexec/octave) and also  
modified the ls-R files accordingly. I found a startup script in /usr/ 
local/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc but it's empty. Also I do  
not currently have a user octaverc (and before it only had references  
to load in octave forge and other packages which are not there  
currently). The only file I found that mentions min, max and  
__gnuplot_plot__ (besides just calling them) if PKG_ADD in /usr/local/ 
libexec/oct/, but there is no reference to the actual oct file:

mark_as_rawcommand ("__gnuplot_plot__");
dispatch ("min", "spmin", "sparse matrix");
dispatch ("min", "spmin", "sparse complex matrix");
dispatch ("min", "spmin", "sparse bool matrix");
dispatch ("max", "spmax", "sparse matrix");
dispatch ("max", "spmax", "sparse complex matrix");
dispatch ("max", "spmax", "sparse bool matrix");

 I suppose the latter ones are just type morphic redispatchers to  
call spmin instead of min for sparse matrices.

What's the canonical way of pointing octave to functions inside oct  
files? Coz I also couldn't find any manual on how this works (how do  
extension developers do it?).

If it is of any help: I attach the output of octave_config_info below

what strikes me there: mentioned
          localapifcnfiledir = /usr/local/share/octave/site/api-v19/m
is not present, only v13 which I suppose is from the old octave  
2.1.7, but that is also completely empty...

what I also found is df files in the src directory of the  
distribution, which seem to contain definitions of all the function,  
but do not get installed anywhere...

Daniel

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Am Jun 24, 2006 um 5:46 PM schrieb Joe Koski:

> on 6/24/06 8:36 AM, John Swensen at address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Daniel Oberhoff wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Yes, I do have aquaterm, and gnuplot by itself is totally ok, but I
> > > really think that gnuplot is not the problem, there are no  
> > > complaints
> > > about gnuplot not working, its just that octave cannot invoke some
> > > functions defined in oct files, __gnuplot_plot___ happens to be  
> > > one of
> > > them. Btw, even if I use X I can run from a non-x terminal by
> > > exporting DISPLAY=:0.0 and starting X manually before running any
> > > gnuplot stuff.
> > >
> > > Daniel
> > Daniel,
> >
> > I remember seeing a similar problem when I was messing around with  
> > 2.95+
> > on my PowerMac.  I was using the fink compiler, so it isn't an  
> > artifact
> > of using the Apple compiler.  In my case, it was a problem of startup
> > files not being run properly.  This was a while ago, so I don't  
> > remember
> > very well, but it seems like whatever scripts went through and  
> > aliased
> > function names to OCT files were messed up.  This made it so min,  
> > max,
> > and gnuplot stuff didn't work.  It may have been a problem of me  
> > having
> > 2 sets of startup files; one in /usr/local/* for an older CVS version
> > and one in /opt/* for the 295+ CVS version and for some reason it was
> > finding the older startup scripts.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > John
> John, Daniel,
>
> Excellent idea. There are four symlinks (octave, octave-config,  
> mkoctfile,
> and octave-bug) that control which version of octave is in use. On  
> my system
> they are located in /usr/local/bin. That's where my gnuplot-4.0 is  
> also. It
> would be a good idea to do an lsF -l and check that all the  
> symlinks are
> pointed to the same version of octave.
>
> Joe