octave-core reports the following (if that sheds any light):
Octave-1-L .nargin. ˇ scalar ans ˇ cell˛ˇˇˇ <cell-element> ˇ string˛ˇˇˇ
ComplexEqn <cell-element> ˇ string˛ˇˇˇ FinDiffType <cell-element> ˇ string˛ˇˇˇ FunValCheck <cell-element> ˇ string˛ˇˇˇ GradObj <cell-element> ˇ string˛ˇˇˇ Jacobian <cell-element> ˇ string˛ˇˇˇ MaxFunEvals <cell-element> ˇ string˛ˇˇˇ MaxIter <cell-element> ˇ string˛ˇˇˇ
OutputFcn <cell-element> ˇ string˛ˇˇˇ TolFun <cell-element> ˇ string˛ˇˇˇ TolX <cell-element> ˇ string˛ˇˇˇ Updating
-Mark
On Jul 22, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Carnë Draug wrote:
> On 22 July 2011 15:24, mark brethen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I hope this is the correct list to post this question. I have been trying to
>> move completely to GNU Octave instead of using Matlab on the mac. Octave
>> 3.2.4 is installed on my machine, mac os x 10.6.8 (snow leopard) using the
>> MacPorts distribution. I'm interested in doing some symbolic calculations.
>> The symbolic pkg loaded with the following warnings:
>>
>> octave:1> pkg install ~/Downloads/symbolic-1.0.9.tar.gz
>> octave_help_OlwdEG:16: Misplaced {.
>> octave_help_OlwdEG:16: Misplaced }.
>> warning: gen_doc_cache: unusable help text in 'poly2sym'. Ignoring function.
>> octave_help_puO7Lr:17: Misplaced {.
>> octave_help_puO7Lr:17: Misplaced }.
>> warning: gen_doc_cache: unusable help text in 'sym2poly'. Ignoring function.
>>
>> To start I attempted to declare some symbols, at which point octave gave the
>> following error message:
>>
>> octave:1> symbols
>> octave:2> x = sym("x")
>> octave(95278) malloc: *** error for object 0x7fff70f01500: pointer being
>> freed was not allocated
>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>> panic: Abort trap -- stopping myself...
>> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
>> save to `octave-core' complete
>> Abort trap
>>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> the errors you got during installation are not the cause of the second
> (which I don't know hot to fix). The first error is due to a syntax
> error on the documentation of those files which has already been fixed
> on the development version.
>
> Carnë
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