Re: making octave-forge on OS X -- "forced strip"?

[John O'Leary]

I was building from the 2003.02.22 tarball.  I switched to the latest  
CVS and the builds are progressing much further now.

The current error is this:

texindex: ./comms.cp: not a texinfo index file
/sw/bin/texi2dvi: line 602: 25154 Segmentation fault      $texindex  
$index_files 2>&5 1>&2
/sw/bin/texi2dvi: texindex exited with bad status, quitting.
make[1]: *** [comms.dvi] Error 1
rm comms.texi

I assume this means there's just some tex component that I haven't  
installed.  (2 week old machine so lots of stuff is missing)  All the  
oct files are compiling just fine, so my build issues now appear to be  
unrelated to octave.  I'll go back and RTFM and finish off my installs  
tomorrow when I have more time.  (sadly, installing octave has been a  
way for me to procrastinate)

A further tiny bug in INSTALL.MacOSX:

You say "Change the options to cp in octinst.sh to read:" at the step  
before you say to run ./configure.  Since configure generates  
octinst.sh from octinst.sh.in (at least AFAIK), shouldn't the  
instruction be to "Change the options to cp in *octinst.sh.in* to  
read:"?

One more question that is perhaps off-topic for this forum: Is anyone  
working on an octave equivalent for Matlab's pmtm command?  It's the  
only one I'll be missing after I get octave-forge installed.  I'd write  
it myself but I am not confident enough in my understanding of  
multitaper spectral analysis to implement it yet.  (I know,  
implementation would be a good way to learn)

Thanks again for all the help,
John

On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 03:43  PM, Per Persson wrote:

> On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 10:05 PM, John O'Leary wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >         I found the INSTALL.MacOSX file that came with octave-forge quite
> > useful
>
> Thanks!
>
> > except for one line:
> >
> > "Comment out forced strip command in extra/mex/Makefile"
> >
> > Could someone tell me what a "forced strip command" is?  I've read
> > through that Makefile and I can't find any line that I could imagine
> > someone would call "forced strip."
>
> Apparently that "forced strip" went away between version 1.4 and 1.5  
> some three months ago, docs need an update.
> CVS diff if you're interested:
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/octave/octave-forge/ 
> extra/mex/Makefile.diff?r1=1.4&r2=1.5
>
> ("Forced" refers to the makefile overriding mkoctfile behaviour)
>
> >  Anyway, I built octave-2.1.40-1
> > using fink built from CVS sometime in the past couple days, and I
> > followed all the instructions in INSTALL.MacOSX for building
> > octave-forge except for the above-mentioned "forced strip" line.   
> > After
> > a sane-looking run of the configure script, my attempts to make
> > octave-forge fail with the following messages:
> >
> > g++ -c -no-cpp-precomp -I/sw/include -I/sw/include/octave-2.1.40
> > -I/sw/include/octave-2.1.40/octave -I/sw/include -g -O2 -Wall
> > -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 mex.cc -o mex.o
> > mex.cc: In function `octave_value_list call_mex(callstyle, const
> >     octave_value_list&, int)':
> > mex.cc:504: parse error before `*' token
> > mex.cc:505: parse error before `*' token
> > mex.cc:506: `argin' undeclared (first use this function)
> > mex.cc:506: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each
> > function
> >     it appears in.)
> > mex.cc:507: `argout' undeclared (first use this function)
> > make[2]: *** [mex.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [mex/] Error 2
> > make: *** [extra/] Error 2
> > Does the above sound like something that would be fixed if I commented
> > out the forced strip line, or am I doing something else wrong?
>
> Compiles OK here, updated from CVS about 5 min ago.
> (Did you use CVS or tarball? What version of tarball in that case?)
>
> > Google
> > searches on "forced strip", naturally, returned a list of porn sites.
>
> LOL!
>
> /Per
> ------------
> Per Persson
> Blekinge Institute of Technology
> Dept. of Signal Processing and Telecommunications
>
> www:   http://www.its.bth.se/staff/pee
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