On 6/8/12 3:47 PM, Donald Derrick wrote:
> 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.
>
If you install an oct305 package, that's built for Octave-3.0.5.
However, the "octave" package and executable points, by default, to the
latest available version, which is Octave-3.6.2. You can run
Octave-3.0.5 via:
octave-3.0.5
and specfun should show up via "pkg list".
> Obviously I'm doing something "wrong", but I just can't figure out what that
> could possibly be.
>
> DD
You didn't install octave362-dev, which contains the headers and other
things you need to build packages with octave, including mkoctfile*. I
should probably make that more clear in the internal documentation.
And you can just use
fink install audio-oct362
to install the audio package. This would have automatically installed
octave362-dev for you.
--
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/got-job/
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