Re: octave-4.0.1-installer-w64-3

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Martin Kunz 
> To: help-octave
> Cc: 
> Date: 2016/4/15, Fri 21:18
> Subject: Re: octave-4.0.1-installer-w64-3
> 
> Am 15.04.2016 um 03:41 schrieb Tatsuro MATSUOKA:
>>  I have upload 64 bit binaries of octave-4.0.1 for windows (release 3).
>>  http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/Win/
> Apparently there is something wrong with this build:
> 
>>>  help nchoosek
> syntax error at C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.1\bin\makeinfo line 54, 
> near "my "
> Global symbol "$package" requires explicit package name at
> C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.1\bin\makeinfo line 54.
> Global symbol "$package" requires explicit package name at
> C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.1\bin\makeinfo line 70.
> Global symbol "$package" requires explicit package name at
> C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.1\bin\makeinfo line 72.
> BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at
> C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.1\bin\makeinfo line 104.
> warning: help: Texinfo formatting filter exited abnormally; raw Texinfo
> source of help text follows...
> 'nchoosek' is a function from the file
> C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.1\share\octave\4.0.1\m\specfun\nchoosek.m
> 
> 
> 
> Additional help for built-in functions and operators is
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> 'doc <topic>' to search the manual index.
> 
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> 
> A similar error occurs when I try to run the build_packages script:
> 
>>>  build_packages
> 
> ## cd to script directory as the packages files are in the same place
> packagedir = fileparts (mfilename ("fullpathext"));
> if length (packagedir) > 0
>   cd (packagedir);
> endif;
> cd (packagedir);
> ## helper function to try install a package, and recover
> 
> function try_install (pkgname)
>   currdir = pwd ();
>   try
>     pkg ('install', pkgname, '-noauto')
>   catch err
>     warning (err.identifier, err.message);
>   end_try_catch;
>   cd (currdir);
>   endfunction;
> 
> ;
> ## install the packages
> try_install ('general-2.0.0.tar.gz')
> syntax error at C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.1\bin\makeinfo line 54, 
> near "my "
> Global symbol "$package" requires explicit package name at
> C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.1\bin\makeinfo line 54.
> Global symbol "$package" requires explicit package name at
> C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.1\bin\makeinfo line 70.
> Global symbol "$package" requires explicit package name at
> C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.1\bin\makeinfo line 72.
> BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at
> C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.1\bin\makeinfo line 104.
> warning: doc_cache_create: unusable help text found in file 'adresamp2'
> syntax error at C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.1\bin\makeinfo line 54, 
> near "my "
> Global symbol "$package" requires explicit package name at
> C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.1\bin\makeinfo line 54.
> Global symbol "$package" requires explicit package name at
> C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.1\bin\makeinfo line 70.
> Global symbol "$package" requires explicit package name at
> C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.1\bin\makeinfo line 72.
> [and so on]
> 
> Do you have any idea how to fix this?


I cannot reproduce the above

>> more off
>> help nchoosek
'nchoosek' is a function from the file 
C:\octave\Octave-4.0.1-w64\share\octave\4.0.1\m\specf
un\nchoosek.m

 -- Function File: C = nchoosek (N, K)
 -- Function File: C = nchoosek (SET, K)
     Compute the binomial coefficient of N or list all possible
     combinations of a SET of items.

     If N is a scalar then calculate the binomial coefficient of N and
     K which is defined as

           /   \
           | n |    n (n-1) (n-2) ... (n-k+1)       n!
           |   |  = ------------------------- =  ---------
           | k |               k!                k! (n-k)!
           \   /

     This is the number of combinations of N items taken in groups of
     size K.

     If the first argument is a vector, SET, then generate all
     combinations of the elements of SET, taken K at a time, with one
     row per combination.  The result C has K columns and
     `nchoosek (length (SET), K)' rows.
  
<snip>

and also
build_packages.m works as well

Please try uninstall octave-4.0.1, reboot your PC and re-install.

Tatsuro