fminunc error

[John W. Eaton]

On 31-Aug-2010, Gaël de Lannoy wrote:

|    Hello everybody
| 
| I have recently quit matlab for octave. I am trying to use fminunc in a 
| matlab-like style and get the following error:
| 
| error: unknown option 'maxit'
| error: evaluating if command near line 136, column 5
| error: evaluating if command near line 135, column 3
| error: evaluating while command near line 116, column 1
| error: called from `read_options' in file 
| `/usr/share/octave/2.1.57/site/m/octave-forge/miscellaneous/read_options.m'
                     ^^^^^^

Octave 2.1.57 is quite old, and was just a development snapshot if I
recall correctly, not an actual released version.  Where did you get
it, and why did you decide to install it instead of the current stable
version, 3.2.4?

I can't say for sure that it would fix the problem you are seeing, but
you would probably be a lot better off using the current stable release.

jwe