Re: Error upon startup of Octave 2.1.57 after installing O-forge

[Quentin Spencer]

I had a problem like this once, and it seems like I remember it being a 
discrepancy in the canonical host type (i686-pc-linux-gnu) between 
octave and octave-forge, which could the problem you are having because 
dispatch.oct is stored in the /usr/libexec/... path which contains the 
host type. In my case one of them contained i686-pc-linux-gnu and the 
other was something like i686-redhat-linux-gnu. Something to check ....

I hope this helps.

-Quentin


address@hidden wrote:

> After compiling and installing O-forge 2004-07-07 (for Octave 2.1.57)
> using gcc 3.4.0 on a Linux 2.4.26/glibc 2.2.3-system, I get the following
> error upon starting Octave:
>
> -----------------------------------
>
> address@hidden:~$ octave
> GNU Octave, version 2.1.57 (i686-pc-linux-gnu).
>
> [simple text removed]
>
> error: `dispatch' undefined near line 2 column 1
> error: near line 2 of file
> `/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.57/site/m/octave-forge/comm//PKG_ADD'
> error: source: error sourcing file
> `/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.57/site/m/octave-forge/comm//PKG_ADD'
> octave:1>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> > From what I can make out in the file is that there is a function
> dispatch() which Octave does not know about. The checks (make check and
> icheck) all work fine, although icheck is not particularly pleasant to
> watch with all the graph-resizing and deleting in the GNUplot window. If I
> add the two lines concerning LOADPATH and EXECPATH to my ~/.octaverc as
> per instructions of the 'make install' output, Octave produces an
> additional error before the prompt:
>
> error: near line 1 of file `/home/maarten/.octaverc'
>
> I would appreciate any hints on how to go about removing these errors.
>
>
> With kind regards,
> Maarten de Jong
>
> P.S.: The install guide of Octave-forge helpfully suggests to delete all
> functions in the FIXES/ directorry which were superseded by correct
> functions in the main Octave distribution. It does not mention how to go
> about finding this out, or where to delete which file. Could this be
> rephrased or automated?
>
>
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