Re: Yet Another Plotting System for Octave

[Alexander Barth]

Thomas Treichl wrote:
> Alexander Barth schrieb:
>> Thomas Treichl wrote:
>>> David Bateman schrieb:
>>>> Alexander Barth wrote:
>>>>> Joe Koski wrote:
>>>>>> on 1/17/07 8:46 PM, Marius Schamschula at address@hidden wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Oops,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I was a bit quick to say that yapso installed correctly:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The install died with
>>>>>>> checking for glBegin in -lGL... no
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> but
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Saturn:~ marius$ nm /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.dylib | grep glBegin
>>>>>>> 00002d7c T ___indirect_glBegin
>>>>>>>          U _glBegin
>>>>>>>          U ___indirect_glBegin
>>>>>>>          U ___indirect_glBegin
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Marius
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Marius,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As far as I know the pkg install feature is broken on Macs with
>>>>>> octave-2.9.9. The untar.m routine was having Mac problems, and I
>>>>>> offered to
>>>>>> be the Mac tester, but nobody responded. I was waiting for 2.9.10
>>>>>> before
>>>>>> trying again. You could probably work around the problem by manually
>>>>>> using
>>>>>> mkoctfile and manually installing the package. YAPSO sounds very
>>>>>> promising.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Joe
>>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for sharing your experience with untar. What is very
>>>>> strange is that absolute file names
>>>>> seem to work. I suspect something wrong with canonicalize_file_name
>>>>> or chdir. I attached a modified
>>>>> untar file with some debugging information. Can you execute this
>>>>> modified untar like:
>>>>>
>>>>> untar('yapso-0.2.1.tar.gz','test-dir')
>>>>>
>>>>> and send us the output? Make sure that you use the attached version
>>>>> with "which untar".
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Alex
>>>>>
>>>> In 2.9.9 there is an assumption that GNU tar is used. This has been
>>>> removed in the CVS and it will work on MACs. However, you can't just
>>>> take pkg.m, but need a number of other changes and so either a full CVS
>>>> is recommended or wait for 2.9.10. This is the major reason I haven't
>>>> uploaded the packages of octave-forge to sourceforge or changed the
>>>> website over to the new octave-forge web site.
>>>>
>>>> D.
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> David is right, the pkg function (meanwhile) works fine with the latest
>>> CVS from octave on MacOSX (tested the 30min old CVS version right now).
>>> Use the pkg function always with the absolute path and filename, eg.
>>>
>>>   pkg install /Users/MyHome/SomeWhere/yapso-0.2.1.tar.gz
>>>
>>> Another thing is that if I use the pkg function and I take an invalid
>>> filename then I don't get an error anymore? Is this wanted? On Mac this
>>> means
>>>
>>>   octave:18> pkg install /Users/Me/yapso-0.
>>>   octave:19> pkg list
>>>     No packages installed.
>>>   octave:20> pkg install /Users/Me/yapso-0.2.1.tar.gz
>>>   octave:21> pkg list
>>>     Package Name | Version | Installation directory
>>>     -------------+---------+-----------------------
>>>            yapso |   0.2.1 | /Users/Me/octave/yapso-0.2.1
>>>
>>> Before I downloaded the latest CVS I think I got an error like "error:
>>> can't find file" or something like that.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>
>> Thomas or Joe,
>>
>> Can one of you send me the output of
>> "canonicalize_file_name('yapso-0.2.1.tar.gz')" ?
>> pkg should work with relative filenames too.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Alex
> 
> Sure Alex, here you are (I put the yapso file in the directory that I
> display with the pwd command):
> 
>   octave:24> pwd
>   ans = /Users/Me/forge/packages/main
>   octave:25> canonicalize_file_name ('yapso-0.2.1.tar.gz')
>   ans = yapso-0.2.1.tar.gz
> 
> And the answer is "no" - pkg doesn't accept relative filenames on my Mac:
> 

On my system (Linux), it returns an absolute filename (which I think is the 
correct behavior, or
not?). I think this is the problem which prevents you to install packages with 
relative filenames.

Thanks,
Alex