Re: Error installing parallel package in Octave

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

On 1/22/20 1:36 PM, Juliano Mota wrote:
> I'm getting the following error when I try to install the parallel
> package in Octave 5.1, Ubuntu 18.04.3, after I ran
> 
> /"pkg install -forge parallel"/:
> 
> /"pkg: error running `make' for the parallel package.
> error: called from
>     configure_make at line 99 column 9
>     install at line 184 column 7
>     pkg at line 441 column 9"/
> 
> Also, the followig is displayed on the screen:
> 
> /"In file included from parallel-gnutls.h:135,
>                  from pserver.cc:49:
> pserver.cc: In function ‘void reval_loop(octave_parallel_stream&)’:
> pserver.cc:142:55: warning: ‘octave_value_list octave::eval_string(const
> string&, bool, int&, int)’ is deprecated: [5]: use
> 'octave::interpreter::eval_string' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>   142 |       SET_ERR (OCTAVE__EVAL_STRING (s, false, p_err, 0), err);
>       |                                                       ^
> error-helpers.h:116:9: note: in definition of macro ‘SET_ERR’
>   116 |         code ; \
>       |         ^~~~
> In file included from oct-alt-includes.h:33,
>                  from config.h:258,
>                  from pserver.cc:26:
> /app/include/octave-5.1.0/octave/../octave/parse.h:589:3: note: declared
> here
>   589 |   eval_string (const std::string&, bool silent, int&
> parse_status, int nargout);
>       |   ^~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from parallel-gnutls.h:135,
>                  from pserver.cc:49:
> pserver.cc:142:55: warning: ‘octave_value_list octave::eval_string(const
> string&, bool, int&, int)’ is deprecated: [5]: use
> 'octave::interpreter::eval_string' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>   142 |       SET_ERR (OCTAVE__EVAL_STRING (s, false, p_err, 0), err);
>       |                                                       ^
> error-helpers.h:116:9: note: in definition of macro ‘SET_ERR’
>   116 |         code ; \
>       |         ^~~~
> In file included from oct-alt-includes.h:33,
>                  from config.h:258,
>                  from pserver.cc:26:
> /app/include/octave-5.1.0/octave/../octave/parse.h:589:3: note: declared
> here
>   589 |   eval_string (const std::string&, bool silent, int&
> parse_status, int nargout);
>       |   ^~~~~~~~~~~
> pserver.cc:172:13: error: ‘command_editor’ has not been declared
>   172 |             command_editor::increment_current_command_number ();
>       |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> pconnect.cc: In function ‘octave_value_list Fpconnect(const
> octave_value_list&, int)’:
> pconnect.cc:536:35: error: ‘octave_env’ has not been declared
>   536 |           std::string directory =
> octave_env::get_current_directory ();
>       |                                   ^~~~~~~~~~
> pserver.cc: In function ‘octave_value_list Fpserver(const
> octave_value_list&, int)’:
> pserver.cc:1119:23: error: ‘octave_env’ has not been declared
>  1119 |           int cd_ok = octave_env::chdir (directory.c_str ());
>       |                       ^~~~~~~~~~
> pserver.cc:1122:13: error: ‘octave_env’ has not been declared
>  1122 |             octave_env::chdir ("/tmp");
>       |             ^~~~~~~~~~
> make: *** [Makefile:150: pserver.o] Error 1
> make: ** Esperando que outros processos terminem.
> make: *** [Makefile:150: pconnect.o] Error 1
> make: Entering directory '/tmp/oct-ODLKgZ/parallel-3.1.3/src'
> CXX="g++" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
> -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -I/usr/include/p11-kit-1
>  -Wno-int-to-pointer-cast " /app/bin/mkoctfile-5.1.0 -c pconnect.cc
> CXX="g++" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
> -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -I/usr/include/p11-kit-1
>  -Wno-int-to-pointer-cast " /app/bin/mkoctfile-5.1.0 -c pserver.cc
> CXX="g++" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
> -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -I/usr/include/p11-kit-1
>  -Wno-int-to-pointer-cast " /app/bin/mkoctfile-5.1.0 -c sclose.cc
> CXX="g++" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
> -fstack-protector-strong -grecord-gcc-switches -I/usr/include/p11-kit-1
>  -Wno-int-to-pointer-cast " /app/bin/mkoctfile-5.1.0 -c reval.cc
> make: Leaving directory '/tmp/oct-ODLKgZ/parallel-3.1.3/src' "/
> 
> Summarizing, the package can not be installed. I have satisfied the
> dependencies required in
> <https://octave.sourceforge.io/parallel/index.html>.
> 
> (I have downloaded and tried to install offline too, same result)
> 
> Any thoughts? I have no ideia where I'm doing wrong.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> -- 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Juliano Fabiano da Mota
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 


The package author/maintainer Olaf Till recently claimed, that there are
some problems with the parallel package 3.1.3 (2018-08-03) [1].

What helped on my openSUSE 15.1 was cloning the repository [2] and to
build the release tarball myself:

   hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/parallel octave-parallel
   cd octave-parallel
   make dist
   cd target

Start Octave

   pkg install parallel-3.1.3.tar.gz  ## NO "-forge" !!!

HTH,
Kai

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-octave/2019-09/msg00083.html
[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/parallel/ci/default/tree/