Re: error with publish

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 19, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Francis Poulin wrote:

> On 2013-09-18, at 9:36 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 17, 2013, at 2:24 PM, Francis Poulin wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I am running octave 3.6.4 that I have installed on my mac using fink.  I 
>>> wanted to play with the publish command to see how it works.  I installed 
>>> it using fink, loaded it ok, but then when I tried to publish I simple 
>>> script I got the following error
>>> 
>>> error: 'exec_print' undefined near line 277 column 33
>>> error: called from:
>>> error:   /sw/share/octave/3.6.4/packages/miscellaneous-1.2.0/publish.m at 
>>> line 277, column 31
>>> error:   /sw/share/octave/3.6.4/packages/miscellaneous-1.2.0/publish.m at 
>>> line 136, column 5
>>> 
>>> It is not essential that I use this but thought I would point it out in 
>>> case someone knows how to fix this.
>>> 
>>> Thanks, Francis
>> 
>> exec_print() is a function that is internal to publish.m.  For 
>> miscellaneous-1.2.0, It begins on line 307 of publish.m.  Perhaps there is 
>> something wrong with your publish.m (corrupted or modified by mistake)?
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
> 
> Hello Ben,
> 
> I spoke too soon. One example publishes correctly, and looks great by the 
> way, but another fails with another program.  The error I get is
> 
> error: 'exec_print' undefined near line 216 column 33
> error: called from:
> error:   /sw/share/octave/3.6.4/packages/miscellaneous-1.2.0/publish.m at 
> line 216, column 31
> error:   /sw/share/octave/3.6.4/packages/miscellaneous-1.2.0/publish.m at 
> line 138, column 5
> 
> I removed my fink install and reinstalled it and it gives the same error.
> 
> When I look at publish.m I se that line 277 uses exec_print. I believe the 
> comments finish near lines 114.  
> 
> Would this be a fink issue?
> 
> Initially I tried using pkg -forge but that failed.  Fink installed it and it 
> sometimes works, which is a bit better but maybe there's an outstanding 
> issue?  Or I'm doing something silly.
> 
> Francis

Can you provide an example that I should be able to duplicate?

Ben