Hi, On 15.11.2012 16:53, Carnë Draug wrote: > On 15 November 2012 14:33, Gerald Gmachmeir <gerald.gmachm...@jku.at> wrote: >> According to the dependencies mentioned, I installed the packages >> general-1.3.2.tar.gz and signal-1.2.0.tar.gz, and also >> miscellaneous-1.2.0.tar.gz and physicalconstants-1.0.0.tar.gz - all without >> any error. > > The physicalconstants package is not necessary at all. It's not a > dependency of anything and if you look at it (just type "news > physicalconstants" at the octave prompt) you will see why it exists > even though it implements no function at all. You would do better > removing it and forget it existed.
OK, I will remove it. >> Trying to install image-2.0.0.tar.gz gives afore mentioned error message. >> >> File "lo-cutils.h" (mentioned in the error message): >>> >>> line 50> OCTAVE_API pid_t >>> line 51> octave_waitpid (pid_t pid, int *status, int options); > > This problem seems to be specific to windows and reside somewhere in > octave core. Bad to hear this ... > There are indeed a lot of changes for the new version of > the image package but if you may have to wait until one of the devs > involved with windows prepare a new release of this package. ... I will wait. ... hopefully not to long ... I am currently learning image processing, and it would be very nice to use the new version, because it has a lot of changes and improvements. >> I thought that perhaps the updated packages must be "activated" and loaded >> them (pkg load general, pkg load signal, pkg load windows), but the error >> messages remains the same. > > No. Other packages are not necessary for the installation, no need to > actually load them before. OK. (I expected this behavour, but I wanted to be sure not to have missed anything.) > Carnë THANK YOU for your very fast reply! A paid-for hotline could not be faster than you! Best wishes to you all, Gerald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
