Re: eps Toolkit - ftell that returns a scalar? was Re: subplot

[Henry F. Mollet]

Hi Neil,
See http://www.dcollett.macosx.com/octaveOSX104.html but there ought to be
an easier way to install Octave on a Mac. With help from the list I
installed Octave 2.1.71 and octave-forge following the instructions given.
[~] -bash-2.05b 501$ octave
GNU Octave, version 2.1.71 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0).
Copyright (C) 2005 John W. Eaton.
Henry


on 1/17/06 11:14 PM, address@hidden at address@hidden wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've now discovered, downloaded and installed a binary for 2.1.71 (from
> http://hpc.sourceforge.net), and epstk seems to be working fine.
> 
> I first had a go at compiling the source on octave.org myself, but it
> didn't go so well - which isn't surprising as the only software I've
> tried to compile on a Mac was very simple, written by myself, and had a
> very short make file (if I used one at all).  I'm most familiar with
> Windows Visual Studio and Delphi, though I was compiling software on
> Linux and Solaris several years ago.  The './configure' suggested that I
> install Readline, and I managed to compile that from source and install
> it, but 'make' on Octave eventually failed with errors beginning with:
> 
> ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _xerbla_ ...
> 
> soon followed by 
> 
> ld: Undefined symbols:
> Marray2<std::comple<double> > operator-<std::complex<double>
>> (Marray2<std::comple<double> > const&, Marray2<std::complex<double>>
> const&)...
> 
> If anybody maintains a "How to compile Octave on OS X for Dummies" page,
> I would like to read it.  If it isn't too complex me, I may have a go at
> compiling the next Testing release, or maybe even the current
> Development release.
> 
> Thanks,
> Neil
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John W. Eaton [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:55 PM
> To: Francis, Neil (Minerals, Waterford)
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: eps Toolkit - ftell that returns a scalar? was Re: subplot
> 
> 
> On 17-Jan-2006, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> | The problem is that ftell does not return a scalar, but a "streamoff"
> | type (Octave version 2.1.53), which the "/" operator does not
> | understand.
> | 
> | I'm now in search of a replacement ftell function that returns a
> | scalar, as I don't think there is a way to typecast streamoff to
> | scalar (?)...
> 
> Version 2.1.53 is quite old.  The current version of Octave (2.1.72)
> should work as you expect.
> 
> jwe
> 
> 
> 
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