Re: zenity package from MacPorts?

[Matthias Brennwald]

On 14. Aug 2010, at 17:09, Martin Helm wrote:

> Am Samstag, 14. August 2010, 15:56:30 schrieb 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
>> 
>> 
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> 
> I have no familiarity with macs and so I do not know if it works the same, 
> but 
> normaly the command
> 
> pkg rebuild -auto zenity
> 
> should change the behaviour of zenity so that it is autoloaded at octave 
> startup.
> 
> - mh

Hmm:

octave:2> pkg rebuild -auto zenity
error: /Users/brennmat/octave: No such file or directory
error: called from:
error:   /opt/local/share/octave/3.2.4/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 437, column 7
error:   /opt/local/share/octave/3.2.4/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 380, column 17