Re: cs-list error with MacOS [was: Octave-3.3.55 and Octave-3.3.90 on OSX]

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:

> On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:02 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 30-Jan-2011, Richard Campbell wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> | The front page should be updated to indicate that Octave-3.3.54 is not 
>>>> the newest developer snapshot. Having just found out about 3.3.55 and 
>>>> 3.3.90, I attempted to build both of them.
>>>> | 
>>>> | Octave 3.3.55 builds fine, but fails 'make check':
>>>> | 
>>>> | Making check in test
>>>> | ./build_sparse_tests.sh
>>>> | ./build_bc_overload_tests.sh ./bc_overloads_expected
>>>> | ../run-octave --norc --silent --no-history ./fntests.m .
>>>> | 
>>>> | Integrated test scripts:
>>>> | 
>>>> | make[2]: *** [check] Abort trap
>>>> | make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
>>>> | make: *** [check] Error 2
>>>> | 
>>>> | When I run it, I get the same cs-list error when trying to print that 
>>>> I've been getting in 3.3.54.
>>>> | 
>>>> | Octave 3.3.90  fails to build:
>>>> | 
>>>> | libtool: compile:  g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -m32 -D_REENTRANT 
>>>> -I../libgnu -I../libgnu -I../libcruft/misc -I../liboctave -I../liboctave 
>>>> -I. -I. -m32 -D_REENTRANT -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H 
>>>> -I/usr/X11/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11/include -Wall -W -Wshadow 
>>>> -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-align 
>>>> -Wcast-qual -g -O2 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread -g -O2 -MT 
>>>> liboctinterp_la-txt-eng-ft.lo -MD -MP -MF 
>>>> .deps/liboctinterp_la-txt-eng-ft.Tpo -c txt-eng-ft.cc  -fno-common -DPIC 
>>>> -o .libs/liboctinterp_la-txt-eng-ft.o
>>>> | txt-eng-ft.cc: In constructor ‘ft_manager::ft_manager()’:
>>>> | txt-eng-ft.cc:78: error: class ‘ft_manager’ does not have any field 
>>>> named ‘fc_init_done’
>>>> | txt-eng-ft.cc: At global scope:
>>>> | txt-eng-ft.cc:107: warning: unused parameter ‘name’
>>>> | txt-eng-ft.cc:107: warning: unused parameter ‘weight’
>>>> | txt-eng-ft.cc:107: warning: unused parameter ‘angle’
>>>> | txt-eng-ft.cc:107: warning: unused parameter ‘size’
>>>> | make[3]: *** [liboctinterp_la-txt-eng-ft.lo] Error 1
>>>> | make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
>>>> | make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>>> | make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>> 
>>>> I checked in the following changeset.
>>>> 
>>>> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/cb4ac5e4d987
>>>> 
>>>> Does this change fix the problem for you?
>>>> 
>>>> jwe
>>> 
>>> Yes, that fix allows me to build Octave 3.3.90, but it doesn't fix the 
>>> cs-list error, pasted below.
>>> 
>>> octave:1> plot(randn(10,1))
>>> 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-3.3.90/scripts/plot/print.m at 
>>> line 390, column 11
>>> 
>>> Make check also reports a cs-list error but does not crash like it does in 
>>> 3.3.55.
>> 
>> Please also give us the details for the cs-list error which occurs when you 
>> run "make check".
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
> 
> Making check in test
> ../run-octave --norc --silent --no-history ./fntests.m .
> 
> Integrated test scripts:
> 
> invalid assignment to cs-list outside multiple assignment

Richard,

I've built a 32bit Octave using the manual instructions in README.MacOS

Please confirm the following gives you the cs-list error.

        info = struct (zeros (0, 1), {"name"});
        info(1,1).name = "foobar";

Ben