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

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 6, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Richard Campbell wrote:

> On Feb 6, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> Ben,
> 
> The error seems to be fixed in 3.3.92, when building as 32-bit. Note that it 
> has appeared to be fixed in 64-bit (with blaswrap, without -ff2c) since 
> 3.3.55 or so.
> 
> I do get many lines of
> 
> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> 
> when plotting, in both 32- and 64-bit. This didn't happen in <= 3.3.91.
> 
> Campbell

I'm seeing the cs-list error in a 32bit build of 3.3.92.

Regarding the ft_render warning, please construct a simple example, and start a 
new thread.

I suspect that some recent changes by Konstas <address@hidden> are related, so 
please cc him as well.

Ben



Ben