I followed your advice and tried to reinstall octave using fink.
Once again it failed to do what I needed. Basically, octave installs, but it
is impossible to properly load a package onto my mac (I also tried installing
an old version on Ubuntu and installing the packages on that - same issues).
What I could really use is simple instructions on how to get packages onto
octave.
In fink I tried the usual:
pkg install {package name} - but this always fails in some strange way in fink
(i.e.
octave:1> pkg install -forge audio
./configure: line 2903: /sw/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.2: No such file or directory
configure: error: Could not run /sw/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.2
the configure script returned the following error: checking for gcc... oct-cc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether oct-cc accepts -g... yes
checking for oct-cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for mkoctfile... /sw/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.2
error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file
/sw/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1373, column 9
error: called from:
error: /sw/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 827, column 5
error: /sw/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 383, column 9
)
And I tried installing them through fink with commands like
fink install specfun-oct305
Which run, and install and compile packages, but those packages cannot be found
or used by octave.
Obviously I'm doing something "wrong", but I just can't figure out what that
could possibly be.
DD
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