Re: (can't install pkgs due to wrong architecture?) Implementation of "uicontrol" for latest Octave?

[Pen-Yuan Hsing]

On 2010/08/20 05:41, Martin Helm wrote:
> Am Freitag, 20. August 2010, 02:21:21 schrieb Tatsuro MATSUOKA:
> > Hello
> >
> > Current situation of Jhandle has been written by Michael as a reply to the
> > ML topic.
> >
> > Trouble with jhandles--installation issue?
> >
> > Thread
> > http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Trouble-with-jhandles-installation-issu
> > e-tt2317282.html
> >
> > Point to Michal's reply
> > http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Trouble-with-jhandles-installation-issu
> > e-td2317282.html#a2320473
> >
> > AS sentence in the above post
> > *****
> > So the bottom line is: current jhandles implementation is not suited for
> > current octave code. *****
> >
> > Perhaps this is the reason why the jhandle package is disappeared from the
> > current octave-forge site.
> >
> > I am not a Matlab user so that the above is all I can tell you.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tatsuro
> >
> > --- Pen-Yuan Hsing wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > As a new Octave user, I am trying to get our lab's Matlab graphics
> > > program (in the form of a bunch of .m files) to work in Octave. I loaded
> > > them up and try to run it, but it told me that there is no definition of
> > > the "uicontrol" function.
> > > After some searching, I realised that "uicontrol" might not be
> > > implemented in Octave yet, but there exists the JHandles package that
> > > takes care of it. Unfortunately, I cannot find a place to download this
> > > package anywhere, including Octave Forge. Therefore:
> > >
> > > 1. Is there a place to download the latest JHandles package?
> > >
> > > OR
> > >
> > > 2. Is there an alternative solution to getting my program to work?
> > >
> > > Thank you very much.
> > >
> > > P.S. I am running Octave under Mac OS X 10.6.
>
> You can give jhandles 0.3.5 a try if you are working with octave 3.2.4 and the
> java-1.2.7 package
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/R2009-05-08/jhandles-0.3.5.tar.gz/download
>
> I compiled it on my linux machine for 3.2.4 and with that version this
> jhandles version works (I have also the development version and 3.3.52 on my
> machine but never tried to make it run with the newer versions and I guess it
> will not work without changes to the source code).
> Since it works on my linux machine but has problems with the same octave
> version on windows machines there is no guarantee that it will work on mac.
>
> But maybe it is worth the effort to try this combination.
>
> - mh

Thanks for the tips!!
I downloaded the files successfully but was unable to install them due 
to the following errors:

"ld: warning: in 
/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave-3.2.3, file was 
built for i386 which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)

.......
.......

error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file 
/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.2.3/m/pkg/pkg.m 
near line 1253, column 2
error: called from:
error: 
/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.2.3/m/pkg/pkg.m 
at line 714, column 5
error: 
/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.2.3/m/pkg/pkg.m 
at line 287, column 7"

Looks like there is an issue with my computer's architecture, is there 
some way to correct this?
Thanks!