Re: minimize is broken

[Martijn Brouwer]

I made the change Paul suggested to the file 
/usr/share/octave/2.1/site/m/octave-forge/optim/minimize.m, but this 
made no difference. Then I downloaded octave-forge from cvs and compared 
my minimize.m with the one from cvs: they are identical. So I was 
wondering whether I had changed the right file. Running 'which minimize' 
from the octave prompt showed:

minimize is the user-defined function from the file
/usr/share/octave/2.1/site/m/octave-forge/optim/minimize.m

So it is the right file. There are a few other files containing the 
setfield command, but these do not differ from there cvs versions.

When I tried to build octave-forge from cvs I encountered an error. Now 
I am building version 2004-02-12. Maybe the problem persists because I 
am using the debian packages, and these have some changes that concern 
setfield.

I there are people with other suggestions I would be glad to try them.

Bye,

Martijn Brouwer


Paul Kienzle wrote:
> Replace 'setfield' with 'struct'.  I've done this in CVS.
>
> Paul Kienzle
> address@hidden
>
> On Jun 3, 2004, at 5:04 PM, Martijn Brouwer wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Minimize is broken:
> >
> > minimize("f",1)
> > error: setfield: called with odd number of arguments
> >
> > This behaviour is independent of the function that is to be minimised. 
> > I have octave 2.1.57 and octave-forge from 2003-06-02, running on 
> > Debian Sarge. Does somebody know how to solve this?
> >
> > Bye,
> >
> > Martijn Brouwer
> >
> >
> >
> >
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