Re: mkoctfile on octave 3.8.2 / fink OSX

[Alexander Hansen]

> On May 21, 2015, at 06:59, Rudolf Widmer-Schnidrig <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Dear List,
> 
> I did a clean install of OSX/Yosemite.
> On this system I installed fink, and with fink I installed octave-3.8.2
> 
> When trying to complete the installation by adding some sourceforge packages 
> I ran into this problem:
> 
> octave:1> pkg install -forge control
> pkg: unable to find the mkoctfile command, Octave installation is incomplete
> error: called from '__gripe_missing_component__' in file 
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/help/__gripe_missing_component__.m near line 53, 
> column 3
> error: called from:
> error:   /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/private/install.m at line 199, column 5
> error:   /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 394, column 9
> 
> octave:1> help mkoctfile
> 'mkoctfile' is a function from the file 
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/miscellaneous/mkoctfile.m
> 
> Thus when calling "pkg" octave cannot find mkoctfile.m
> but invoking "help mkoctfile" seems to find it.
> 
> Also the path to mkoctfile ( /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/miscellaneous/ ) is set:
> 
> octave:2> path
> 
> Octave's search path contains the following directories:
> 
> . /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/plot
> /sw/lib/octave/3.8.2/site/oct/x86_64-apple-darwin 
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/plot/appearance
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/site/m /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/plot/draw
> /sw/lib/octave/3.8.2/oct/x86_64-apple-darwin 
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/plot/util
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/polynomial
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/audio /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/prefs
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/deprecated /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/set
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/elfun /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/signal
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/general /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/sparse
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/geometry /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/specfun
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/gui /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/special-matrix
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/help /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/startup
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/image /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/statistics
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/io /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/statistics/base
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/java 
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/statistics/distributions
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/linear-algebra 
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/statistics/models
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/miscellaneous 
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/statistics/tests
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/optimization /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/strings
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/path /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/testfun
> /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/pkg /sw/share/octave/3.8.2/m/time
> 
> Anybody has a suggestion whats going wrong here?
> 
>           many thanks in advance,          -Ruedi
> 
> 

I’m a bit behind on updating the Octave Forge packages in Fink, because the 
people who actually pay my bills are demanding a lot of my time, but you might 
just do “fink install control-oct382” to install the control package.  The Fink 
setup does support manually installed Octave Forge packages, too, provided that 
you install the corresponding build-time package first via "fink install 
octave382-dev”.  That’s what contains the headers and mkoctfile.  

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison