Re: Flummoxed again by Octave

2016-10-27 Thread Marius Schamschula
Jerry, To list the installed versions of octave-devel: post select octave to select a particular version, e.g. octave-devel-rc: sudo port select octave octave-devel-rc On Oct 27, 2016, at 5:59 PM, list_em...@icloud.com wrote: >> >> On Oct 27, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Marius Schamschula >> wrote:

Re: Flummoxed again by Octave

2016-10-27 Thread list_email
> On Oct 27, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Marius Schamschula wrote: > > Jerry, > > If you want to use octave packages with octave-devel*, you need to use octave > select. Otherwise mkoctfile (which is needed to build octave packages) cannot > be found, and MacPorts will proceed to install octave. I can

Re: Flummoxed again by Octave

2016-10-27 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 4:11 PM, wrote: > I recently did a fresh installation of MacPorts. I then installed > octave-devel because the version given for it is 4.1.0+, more recent than > that for octave the version of which is given as 4.0.3_1. > -devel ports are for testing; there is no guarante

Flummoxed again by Octave

2016-10-27 Thread list_email
I recently did a fresh installation of MacPorts. I then installed octave-devel because the version given for it is 4.1.0+, more recent than that for octave the version of which is given as 4.0.3_1. I then did sudo port install octave-signal which immediately began trying to install octave 4.0