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

[Richard Campbell]

On Jan 30, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> Hello
> 
> As far as I remember,
> 
> epstool  and pstoedit are required and fig2dev is optional for fltk printing 
> for unixy environments
> including mac OS X.
> 
> Please install them.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro
> --- Richard Campbell  wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
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I'm not using fltk - I'm using gnuplot and X11.

I still get the cs-list error. All the others are warnings and only appear the 
first time print is called. Can we address the error?

octave:2> print('-dpng','test.png')
warning: print.m: fig2dev 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