Re: zenity package from MacPorts?

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 14, 2010, at 3:31 AM, Matthias Brennwald wrote:

> 
> On 14. Aug 2010, at 10:23, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> 
>> tor, 12 08 2010 kl. 21:18 +0300, skrev Matthias Brennwald:
>>> zenity itself is not the issue. The issue is that Octave does not find
>>> the *.m files from the Octave-zenity package. If I manually tell
>>> Octave where to look for the *.m files (e.g. using addpath(...)),
>>> everything works nicely.
>> 
>> Is the package loaded? Type 'pkg list' in Octave; if there is an *
>> besides the package name then it is loaded. If the package is not loaded
>> just do it ('pkg load zenity'). If it is loaded, then it sounds like a
>> bug in MacPorts.
>> 
>> Søren
> 
> Ah, this did the trick (see below). Thanks! However, why are my other 
> packages loaded automatically, while zenity is not? Can I change this? I'd 
> like zenity to behave the same as all other packages.

Re: "why are my other packages loaded automatically, while zenity is not?"

I took a quick look at the port file

        
http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/math/octave-zenity/Portfile

Unfortunately, I don't see how any of the packages are installed.

I suggest the maintainers at MacPorts. 

Ben