Re: Trouble installing miscellaneous package in Mac OS X

[Alexander Hansen]

On 2/15/13 4:59 AM, jnorato wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to Octave and I am having some problems installing the
> miscellaneous package in my Mac.  I used fink to install octave-alpha
> (3.6.3) as well as control-atlas-oct363.  I am using the XCode c compiler. 
> This is my system/installation information:
> 
> ####
> 
> GNU Octave Version 3.6.3
> GNU Octave License: GNU General Public License
> Operating System: Darwin 12.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25
> 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Package Name  | Version | Installation directory
> --------------+---------+-----------------------
>      control *|   2.4.1 | /sw/share/octave/3.6.3/packages/control-2.4.1
>      general  |   1.3.2 | /Users/juliannorato/octave/general-1.3.2
>       struct  |  1.0.10 | /Users/juliannorato/octave/struct-1.0.10
> 
> ####
> 
> I can install successfully the general and struct packages as seen above. 
> However, when I try to install miscellaneous, I get the following errors:
> 
> ####
> 
> octave:1> pkg install -forge miscellaneous
> In file included from cell2cell.cc:16:
> In file included from /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/../octave/oct.h:36:
> In file included from /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/defun-dld.h:30:
> In file included from /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/defun-int.h:28:
> In file included from /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/ov-builtin.h:28:
> In file included from /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/ov-fcn.h:35:
> In file included from /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/symtab.h:34:
> /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/regexp.h:90:3: warning: 'opts' defined as a
> struct here but previously declared as a
>       class [-Wmismatched-tags]
>   struct opts
>   ^
> /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/regexp.h:40:3: note: did you mean struct
> here?
>   class opts;
>   ^~~~~
>   struct
> 1 warning generated.
> In file included from partarray.cc:16:
> In file included from /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/../octave/oct.h:36:
> In file included from /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/defun-dld.h:30:
> In file included from /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/defun-int.h:28:
> In file included from /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/ov-builtin.h:28:
> In file included from /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/ov-fcn.h:35:
> In file included from /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/symtab.h:34:
> /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/regexp.h:90:3: warning: 'opts' defined as a
> struct here but previously declared as a
>       class [-Wmismatched-tags]
>   struct opts
>   ^
> /sw/include/octave-3.6.3/octave/regexp.h:40:3: note: did you mean struct
> here?
>   class opts;
>   ^~~~~
>   struct
> 

                               ^
> partarray.cc:55:11: error: use of undeclared identifier 'eidc'
>           eidc[i] = eidx;
>           ^
> partarray.cc:70:11: error: use of undeclared identifier 'eidc'
>           eidc[i] = octave_value (arg.matrix_value ().column (1)).
>           ^
> partarray.cc:74:37: error: use of undeclared identifier 'eidc'
>               if (bidc[i](j) < 1 || eidc[i](j) > alldims(i))
>                                     ^
> partarray.cc:77:32: error: use of undeclared identifier 'eidc'
>               if (bidc[i](j) > eidc[i](j))
>                                ^
> partarray.cc:79:17: error: use of undeclared identifier 'eidc'
>                 eidc[i](j) = bidc[i](j) - 1;
>                 ^
> partarray.cc:106:33: error: use of undeclared identifier 'eidc'
>           octave_idx_type end = eidc[j](cidx(j));
>                                 ^
> 1 warning and 7 errors generated.
> make: *** [partarray.oct] Error 1
> 'make' returned the following error: mkoctfile -Wall cell2cell.cc
> mkoctfile -Wall partarray.cc
> error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file
> /sw/share/octave/3.6.3/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1385, column 9
> error: called from:
> error:   /sw/share/octave/3.6.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 827, column 5
> error:   /sw/share/octave/3.6.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 383, column 9
> 
> ####
> 
> Does this have to do with the -Wall flag for mkoctfile? Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Julian
> 
> 
> 

No, the issue is

partarray.cc:42:31: error: variable length array of non-POD element type
> 'Array<octave_idx_type>'
>   Array<octave_idx_type> bidc [maxdims], eidc [maxdims];
>

clang doesn't allow that, and mkoctfile is set up to use clang to build
packages.

Why didn't you use Fink to install miscellaneous?
-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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