Re: mkoctfile problems with Octave 3.4.0, OSX 10.6.7

[Lukas Reichlin]

On 21.04.2011, at 13:37, Julien Salort wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've built a new version today that should fix these problems.
> http://upload.grenoble.cnrs.fr/telechargement/eOVUbOnrWB/octave-3.4.0-i386.dmg
> 
> In addition:
> - I  used a gfortran compiler  that should now be  fully compatible with
>  10.5
> -  I added  Gnuplot-4.4.3 compiled  by  Pantxo Diribarne  in the  Extras
>  folder
> - All the  dependencies are compiled universal (ppc &  i386) so I should
>  be able to make a ppc version soon.
> 
> Can you tell me how this new version behaves on your machine ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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Hi Julien

I've just tested your binary and everything seems to work fine [1, 2].  Thanks 
for all your efforts!  I'm sitting in front of a fairly recent Core i3 iMac 27 
running Mac OS X 10.6.7 and an antique iMac G5 is waiting to get out of my 
cellar's dark :-)

Two secret wishes:
- Prompt "octave:1>" instead of "octave-3.4.0:1>" for the sake of brevity.
- A versioning scheme for your binary, for example "Octave 3.4.0_3" (similar to 
MacPorts) or "Octave 3.4.0 2011-04-21". At the moment, Finder's Info window 
simply displays "Version: 3.4.0" which makes it hard to tell whether one is 
using the most recent edition of your binary.

Best regards,
Lukas


[1] Package Installation (requires Fortran compiler)
octave-3.4.0:2> pkg install control-2.0.2*
octave-3.4.0:3> test_control
PASSES 76 out of 76 tests
PASSES 2 out of 2 tests
PASSES 2 out of 2 tests
PASSES 7 out of 7 tests
PASSES 3 out of 3 tests
PASSES 3 out of 3 tests
PASSES 3 out of 3 tests
PASSES 2 out of 2 tests
PASSES 5 out of 5 tests
PASSES 4 out of 4 tests
PASSES 3 out of 3 tests
PASSES 4 out of 4 tests
PASSES 1 out of 1 tests
PASSES 2 out of 2 tests
PASSES 2 out of 2 tests
PASSES 2 out of 2 tests
PASSES 1 out of 1 tests
PASSES 1 out of 1 tests
PASSES 30 out of 30 tests
octave-3.4.0:4> 


[2] FLTK Plotting
octave-3.4.0:1> available_graphics_toolkits 
ans = 
{
  [1,1] = gnuplot
}
octave-3.4.0:2> graphics_toolkit ("fltk")
octave-3.4.0:3> available_graphics_toolkits 
ans = 
{
  [1,1] = fltk
  [1,2] = gnuplot
}
octave-3.4.0:4> P = ss (-1, 1, 1, 0)

P.a =
       x1
   x1  -1

P.b =
       u1
   x1   1

P.c =
       x1
   y1   1

P.d =
       u1
   y1   0

Continuous-time model.
octave-3.4.0:5> step (P)
octave-3.4.0:6>