Re: Mac OS X build

[Henry F. Mollet]

[Henry-Mollets-Computer:~] mollet% octave
GNU Octave, version 2.1.35 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.2).

[Henry-Mollets-Computer:~] mollet% fink list octave
Information about 1785 packages read in 11 seconds.

 i   octave           2.1.35-10    Matlab-like language for computations
     octave-atlas     2.1.35-6     Matlab-like language, with atlas libs

[Henry-Mollets-Computer:~] mollet% fink selfupdate-cvs
sudo /sw/bin/fink  selfupdate-cvs
Password:

I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions.
After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should then
update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'.

cvs -z3 update -d -P
cvs update: could not open /Users/mollet/.cvspass: No such file or directory
cvs [update aborted]: use "cvs login" to log in first
### execution of cvs failed, exit code 1
Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above.
[Henry-Mollets-Computer:~] mollet%

I presume that I'm logged in because I'm communicating with cvs. Then I've
checked http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/cvsaccess/index.php and found
> Note that this command currently doesn't work if you are behind a firewall
> (this is a limitation in CVS, not in Fink). We are working on a solution to
> tunnel through HTTP firewalls (by enhancing cvs to support these), but no
> release date has been set for this.
I'm using a DSL router which probably has a fire-wall and I don't know how
to circumvent the firewall if indeed this is the problem.
Henry
 

on 6/3/03 2:52 PM, Per Persson at address@hidden wrote:

> To get the latest package descriptions, i.e. those that have been
> changed since the latest point release (0.5.2) use:
> fink selfupdate-cvs
> 
> See, http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/cvsaccess/index.php
> 
> This is a pure fink issue, unrelated to octave but I'll cc help-octave
> in case anybody has the same problems.
> 
> /P
> 
> On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 10:44 PM, Heber Farnsworth wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>>> The fink version of Octave has too many numerical problems to be
>>>> usable.
>>> 
>>> IIRC, this was a problem with octave 2.1.40 in fink.
>>> The package was updated because of this, and the fink page lists
>>> 2.1.46 as the current version in both stable and unstable branches.
>>> http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/octave
>> 
>> That's right.  I have 2.1.40.  Fink seems to think this is the most
>> recent.  When I type fink update-all it says:
>> 
>> Information about 1159 packages read in 0 seconds.
>> 
>> No packages to install.
>> 
>>> Have you updated the package descriptions?
>>> What does "fink list octave" give you?
>>> http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/bundled/usage.php
>> 
>> heberf% fink list octave
>> Information about 1159 packages read in 1 seconds.
>> 
>>  i   octave           2.1.40-1     Matlab-like language for
>> computations
>> 
>> 
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> Per Persson
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> Dept. of Signal Processing and Telecommunications
> 
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> e-mail: address@hidden
> 
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