Re: problems installing optim on OSX 10.9

[Olaf Till]

Hi Steven,

Bens reply has possibly solved your problem, but for the record:

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 06:28:29PM -0700, sdorsher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed Octave using MacPorts on my MacBook, which runs OSX 10.9. None
> of the packages seem to have installed with it. Now I am trying to figure
> out how to install optim, which requires miscellaneous, which requires
> general. It also requires struct. 
> 
> When I try to install struct via pkg install -forge struct at the octave
> command line, I get the following error message. 
> 
> mkoctfile: stripping disabled on this platform
> mkoctfile: stripping disabled on this platform
> mkoctfile: stripping disabled on this platform
> mkoctfile: stripping disabled on this platform

This should be harmless.

> For information about changes from previous versions of the struct package,
> run 'news ("struct")'.
> 
> 
> When I try to install general via pkg install -forge general at the octave
> command line, I get the following error message. 
> 
> unpackfields.cc:92:39: error: no member named 'assign' in 'symbol_table'
>                         symbol_table::assign (fld_names(i), map.content...
>                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
> unpackfields.cc:117:35: error: no member named 'assign' in 'symbol_table'
>                     symbol_table::assign (fld_names(i), val);
>                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
> 2 errors generated.
> make: *** [unpackfields.oct] Error 1
> 'make' returned the following error: /opt/local/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.4 SHA1.cc
> /opt/local/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.4 mark_for_deletion.cc
> /opt/local/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.4 packfields.cc
> /opt/local/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.4 unpackfields.cc
> error: called from 'pkg>configure_make' in file
> /opt/local/share/octave/3.6.4/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1385, column 9
> error: called from:
> error:   /opt/local/share/octave/3.6.4/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 827, column 5
> error:   /opt/local/share/octave/3.6.4/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 383, column 9

There seems to have been a change in `general', which makes `general'
actually depend on Octave-3.8... or later.

(@Carnë:
r12544
* unpackfields.cc: symbol_table::varref() has been deprecated in Octave 3.8.
Replaced with a call to symbol_table::asign(). ...)

Current `optim' does not depend on `miscellaneous' anymore, but there
is no release yet. I don't think you'll have Mercurial installed on
OSX, but if you have, you can try:

$  hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/optim octave-optim
$  tar -czf optim-1.3.1.tar.gz octave-optim
(start Octave)
octave:1> pkg install optim-1.3.1.tar.gz

We could probably also make an intermediate `optim' release now, if
really necessary.

Olaf

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