Re: Broken .octave_hist

[Per Persson]

On Sunday, December 7, 2003, at 12:21 AM, Joe Koski wrote:
> (Incidently, I had tried building octave 2.1.50 from source, but that 
> plan
> was abandoned when I couldn't get the OSF readline "make" to work 
> because of
> missing library files:
>
> ld: Undefined symbols:
> restFP
> saveFP
> _tgoto
[snip]

You may stick with a static libreadline by using --disable-shared 
option with configure _or_
build a shared lib by editing support/shobj-conf so that the SHLIB_LIBS 
entry for darwin (line 151) reads
SHLIB_LIBS='-lSystem -lcc_dynamic -lncurses'
instead of
SHLIB_LIBS='-lSystem'

(This issue/fix is known to the readline maintainers.)


> > > The building of the octave-forge routines was not smooth, but
> > > the "make install" seemed to go OK.
> >
> > It would help if you elaborated on "not smooth".
>
> The ./configure gave a long list of NOINSTALLS, but I went ahead 
> anyway.

This is what I get here:
./extra/engine/NOINSTALL
./extra/fake-sparse/NOINSTALL
./extra/NaN/NOINSTALL
./extra/patches/NOINSTALL
./extra/perl/NOINSTALL
./extra/tk_octave/NOINSTALL
./extra/ver20/NOINSTALL
./main/parallel/NOINSTALL
./nonfree/gpc/NOINSTALL
./nonfree/splines/NOINSTALL


> The
> "make" file exited complaining
>
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: tex: command not found
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: tex exited with bad status, quitting.
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: see comms.log for errors.
> make[2]: *** [comms.dvi] Error 1
> rm comms.texi
> make[1]: *** [comm/] Error 2
> make: *** [main/] Error 2
>
> I don't have tex (as in LaTex?) on my machine and I thought it was 
> related
> only to help file construction, so I went ahead with "sudo make 
> install"
> anyway. I could send a copy of the .log file if it would help.

OK, you've gotten a partial install then, I suppose. This is the source 
of your problems.

Tex is a build-time dependency and doesn't come with the octave binary 
install. So, if you want to install octave-forge-2003.06.02 you need 
(la)tex.
I seem to recall some discussion about this in the past. If latex is a 
dependency, it should be checked for (makeinfo, texi2dvi and texi2html 
are present by default but not dvips and dvipdf).

Your quick'n dirty fix is to remove $(DOCS) from target 'all' in line 
38 of main/comm/Makefile and build/install.


> > > About the time of the octave-forge installation, my history of
> > > commands in
> > > .octave_hist stopped being updated.
> >
> > No idea. What is the value of variables 'history_file' and
> > 'saving_history'?

[snip]

Sorry, no idea. I don't think any part of octave-forge messes with the 
history stuff.

> > Finally, the output of 'octave_config_info' could give some clues to
> > whether the binary install is sane.
>
> Attached to this e-mail in case it's helpful. I'll also see if 
> something
> obvious jumps out from looking at it.

Looks OK to me.

/Per

PS. I'll see if the octave-forge list have some more info on this.



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