Re: Removing an old version

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Feb-2005, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| 
| >On 17-Feb-2005, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
| >
| >| At this point you are probably still better going with 
| >| Andy's stuff as the development tree for the sparse code in octave has a 
| >| bit of leakage of the gnuplot split, that prevents all use of graphics. 
| >
| >I'm not sure what you mean by this.  Graphics seem to work for me with
| >Octave built from both on the main branch and the sparse-merge branch
| >of the CVS archive.
| >
| >jwe
| >
| >  
| >
| 
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| error: `__gplot_init__' undefined near line 51 column 1
| error: near line 51 of file 
| `/opt/octave-sparse/libexec/octave/2.1.64/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu//PKG_ADD'
| error: source: error sourcing file 
| `/opt/octave-sparse/libexec/octave/2.1.64/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu//PKG_ADD'
| octave:1> plot (1:10)
| error: `gset' undefined near line 178 column 3
| error: called from `plot' in file 
| `/opt/octave-sparse/share/octave/2.1.64/m/plot/plot.m'
| octave:1>
| 
| I considered this teething problems and haven't been too concerned to 
| chase down the reason. But since you say it works for you, I might....

The __gplot_init__.oct file should be installed in the directory
/opt/octave-sparse/libexec/octave/2.1.64/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu
along with the PKG_ADD file that calls it.  I just tried a "make
install" with the current sparse-merge branch and that seems to work
correctly for me.

jwe



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