Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge Development (fwd)

[Jesper Friis]

delaunayn is part of the geometry package which I haven't compiled since 
we don't use it and it requires qhull. I am afraid that I will not have 
time to try including it before July.

Sorry
/Jesper



On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Tom G. Smith (Smitty) wrote:

> Oh, how I wish this had worked, because the installation was
> sweet and simple.  As root, all I did was this:
> 
>       rpm -Uvh \
>               octave-2.1.57-1.i386.rpm \
>               octave-forge-2004.02.12-4.i386.rpm \
>               vtk-4.5.0-1.cvs20040505.i386.rpm \
>               hdf5-1.6.1-1.i386.rpm
> 
> but delaunayn is still missing:
> 
>       -bash-2.05b$ octave
>       GNU Octave, version 2.1.57 (i686-pc-linux-gnu).
>       Copyright (C) 2004 John W. Eaton.
>       ...lines omitted...
>       LOADPATH = :/share/fs/smitty/octavestuff
>       octave:1> dtest
>       error: `delaunayn' undefined near line 2 column 3
>       error: evaluating assignment expression near line 2, column 2
>       error: near line 2 of file `/share/fs/smitty/octavestuff/dtest.m'
>       octave:1> exit
> 
>       -bash-2.05b$ cat dtest.m
>       x=rand(10,3);
>       t=delaunayn(x);
>       length(t)
>       -bash-2.05b$
> 
> Many thanks to Jesper Friis for the help.  If he doesn't mind, I plan
> to download the rest of his vtk-related rpms.  Overall it looks like
> he's done a nice job of packaging.
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 12:55:13 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Jesper Friis <address@hidden>
> To: "Tom G. Smith (Smitty)" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge Development (fwd)
> 
> If it can help you I have made rpms for RH9 of most of our local
> installations.  They are created with checkinstall, and have some
> dependices, but I think you will find all the required rpms togeter with
> octave and octave-forge at http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/friisj/RPMS
> 
> Regards
> /Jesper
> 
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Tom G. Smith (Smitty) wrote:
> > Perhaps unfortunately, I'm running RH9, and just purchased
> > RedHat Enterprise Linux AS.  We have a bank of about 20 computers
> > running under Condor, all at RH9, and that's where we want to
> > use Octave.  We have a license for MATLAB, but it's only one
> > concurrent user; that doesn't help us much on the bank running
> > under Condor.  The researcher I'm working for does some image
> > processing in MATLAB, and he's hoping he can reduce his turnaround
> > by converting to Octave and using our bank of computers under Condor.
> >
> > I get the impression from a number of responses that people think
> > I've somehow been messing with the source for octave-forge.  I assure
> > you, all I did was use the commands David Bateman sent me to get the
> > source for octave-forge, and only started changing things when the
> > make started failing:
> >
> > cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/octave login
> > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/octave co
> > octave-forge
> >
> > I'd be happy to compile from source, if that would solve my problems,
> > but having someone say, for example, "I've just today compiled
> > CVS checkout of octave-forge on a CVS version of Octave and the
> > sequence ./autogen.sh; ./configure; make; make install; worked with
> > no problems what so ever."  I tried that, using the source from
> > the cvs commands above, and it does not work for me.  I got both
> > octave 2.1.57 and octave-forge to compile, with the indicated source
> > changes I've previously indicated, but then I got a "dispatch.oct is
> > not a valid shared library" message when immediately upon invoking
> > octave.  I found a message using Google that says I need to compile
> > shared library support in.  So I started over, using make distclean;
> > ./configure --enable-dl --enable-shared; make; make install, and when
> > that finished, octave aborted with a segmentation fault immediately
> > upon invocation.  That's when I decided to try the RPMs, and at least
> > it runs now, though, as I said, the original problem with delaunayn
> > being missing still hasn't been solved.
> >
> > I'm certainly receptive to suggestions, except I don't think changing
> > over our Linux distribution from RedHat to Debian is a viable suggestion.
> > If anyone who got octave and octave-forge to compile with no problems
> > could tell me exactly what source they used, and what commands, I'd
> > certainly be willing to give it a try.
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:05:36 -0500
> > From: John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
> > To: "Tom G. Smith (Smitty)" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, Ted Tower <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge Development (fwd)
> >
> > On 11-Jun-2004, Tom G. Smith (Smitty) <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > | I finally got a working octave, but only by using rpms, and even
> > | then I had to force it it ignore dependencies.  Without --nodeps I
> > | got this error:
> > |
> > |   error: Failed dependencies:
> > |           libqhull >= 0:2003.1 is needed by octave-forge-2004.02.12-2mdk
> > |
> > | But, as you can see below, the qhull I was installing *was* >= 2003.1, and
> > | I haven't located an rpm for a release any more recent than 2003.1-1:
> >
> > It's unfortunate that there are problems with the RPM files that you
> > found, but ensuring that the packages for every distribution work
> > correctly is a bit beyond the scope of the Octave and Octave-forge
> > projects.  If you want to see the packages fixed, then I suggest that
> > you report the problems you have with the RPM packages to whoever
> > built them.
> >
> > | And after many days of work, I still don't have a solution to the original
> > | problem, namely that the researcher I'm working for wants to use
> delaunayn;
> > | it still comes up missing.
> >
> > On a current (i.e., testing) Debian system, all you would have to do
> > is
> >
> >   apt-get install octave2.1 octave-forge
> >
> > and I think you would get a working delaunayn.
> >
> > So apparently it is possible to build a working version of Octave and
> > Octave-forge.
> >
> > I've not read all the messages you've sent carefully, but it seems
> > that you have been mixing versions when you have tried to build these
> > packages yourself.  I don't think it is reasonable to expect that you
> > can grab any combination of versions and expect perfect results.  For
> > Debian, Dirk is apparently building Octave 2.1.57 and an Octave-forge
> > version 2004.02.12.  Minor changes may have been required to get a
> > clean build, but I don't think it should take major surgery.  I don't
> > recall precisely what OS/tools you are using, but if the build fails
> > on your system with these versions of Octave and Octave-forge, then
> > perhaps you are using the wrong versions of other tools?
> >
> > jwe
> >
> >
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