Re: Yet Another Plotting System for Octave

[David Bateman]

Alexander Barth wrote:
> Joe Koski wrote:
>> on 1/17/07 8:46 PM, Marius Schamschula at address@hidden wrote:
>>
>>> Oops,
>>>
>>> I was a bit quick to say that yapso installed correctly:
>>>
>>> The install died with 
>>>
>>> checking for glBegin in -lGL... no
>>>
>>> but
>>>
>>> Saturn:~ marius$ nm /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.dylib | grep glBegin
>>> 00002d7c T ___indirect_glBegin
>>>          U _glBegin
>>>          U ___indirect_glBegin
>>>          U ___indirect_glBegin
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Marius
>>>
>> Marius,
>>
>> As far as I know the pkg install feature is broken on Macs with
>> octave-2.9.9. The untar.m routine was having Mac problems, and I offered to
>> be the Mac tester, but nobody responded. I was waiting for 2.9.10 before
>> trying again. You could probably work around the problem by manually using
>> mkoctfile and manually installing the package. YAPSO sounds very promising.
>>
>> Joe
>>
> 
> Thank you for sharing your experience with untar. What is very strange is 
> that absolute file names
> seem to work. I suspect something wrong with canonicalize_file_name or chdir. 
> I attached a modified
> untar file with some debugging information. Can you execute this modified 
> untar like:
> 
> untar('yapso-0.2.1.tar.gz','test-dir')
> 
> and send us the output? Make sure that you use the attached version with 
> "which untar".
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Alex
>

In 2.9.9 there is an assumption that GNU tar is used. This has been
removed in the CVS and it will work on MACs. However, you can't just
take pkg.m, but need a number of other changes and so either a full CVS
is recommended or wait for 2.9.10. This is the major reason I haven't
uploaded the packages of octave-forge to sourceforge or changed the
website over to the new octave-forge web site.

D.