Re: lookfor errors, "Bad Image"

[marco atzeri]

On 12/20/2012 3:47 PM, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
> Win. Vista 32bit, using Octave 3.6.2 MINGW  with the default
> octave-forge packages.
>
> using lookfor produces the expected results, but during execution the
> following two OS error messages appear. quick search on the bug tracker
> didn't pop anything up:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general/41602/focus=7955
likely the binary packager missed the fault in the source package.

> -----------
> octave.exe - Bad Image
>
> C:\Octave\Octave3.6.2_gcc4.6.2\lib\octave\packages\tsa-4.2.2\i686-pc-mingw32-api-v48+\covm_mex.mex
> is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try
> installing the program again using the original installation media or
> contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support.
> ------------
>
> ----------
> octave.exe - Bad Image
>
> C:\Octave\Octave3.6.2_gcc4.6.2\lib\octave\packages\tsa-4.2.2\i686-pc-mingw32-api-v48+\sumskipnan_mex.mex
> is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try
> installing the program again using the original installation media or
> contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support.
> ------------
>
> after clicking OK on both, it completes execution and displays what I
> think are the expected results:

if you do not need the tsa pkg, just unload it.

> octave:1> lookfor integrate
> diffpara            Return the estimator D for the differencing
> parameter of an  integrated time series.
> run2dtests          x^2+y^2 integrated from -1 to 1 in x and -1 to 1 in
> y = 8/3
> mdsim               Integrates a system of particles using velocity
> Verlet algorithm.

Regards
Marco