Re: GNU Octave 4.0.0 Released

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
>From: Lester Anderson
>To: Vic Norton  
>Cc: John W. Eaton  info-gnu octave-maintainers help-octave
>Date: 2015/6/4, Thu 18:41
>Subject: Re: GNU Octave 4.0.0 Released
> 
>
>Hi all,
>
>Just did a quick check and the signal processing packagae does not seem to be 
>installed, Tukeywin for example was not found.
>
>C:\Octave\octave-4.0.0\share\octave\4.0.0\m\signal
>
>
>Have I missed something? Windows 7
>
>
>Cheers
>Lester
>


From octave-3.8 for windows, the octave-forge packages are not pre-installed.
Easy way to install the octave-forge package is to use build_packages.m script.

>> C:\Octave\octave-4.0.0\src
>> build_packages

The script build_packages.m shipped with octave-4.0.0_0-installer has a bug.
Workaround at this moment,

Modify build_packages.m in C:\Octave\octave-4.0.0\src (you can use octave-gui 
editor)
general-1.3.4.tar.gz -> general-2.0.0.tar.gz
signal-1.3.1.tar.gz -> signal-1.3.2.tar.gz

before executing 
>> build_packages


After the octave-forge packages are installed, confirm the install by 
>> pkg list

If you want to the signal package is to be auto load, execute
>> pkg rebuild signal -auto

exit octave and restart octave.

And the execute again 
>> pkg list
to confirm the signal package is loaded. (The loaded package is labeled by '*'.)

Oops. I have to mention one more thing.

The io package in  C:\Octave\octave-4.0.0\src is buggy.

For io package, execute under internet connection:
>> pkg install -forge io

Hope the above helps

Tatsuro