Re: Octave-3.3.55 and Octave-3.3.90 on OSX

[Richard Campbell]

On Jan 31, 2011, at 10:17 AM, bpabbott wrote:

> On Jan 31, 2011, at 09:18 AM, Richard Campbell <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jan 31, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>> > __gnuplot_get_var__ (gcf, "GPVAL_TERMINALS")
>> 
>> Looks the same. I should add that I use this gnuplot with the precompiled 
>> Octave.app and it works just fine. I built it from source with no options.
>> 
>> 
>> octave:2> __gnuplot_get_var__ (gcf, "GPVAL_TERMINALS")
>> ans = canvas cgm corel dpu414 dumb dxf eepic emf emtex epslatex epson_180dpi 
>> epson_60dpi epson_lx800 fig gpic hp2623A hp2648 hp500c hpdj hpgl hpljii hppj 
>> imagen latex mf mif mp nec_cp6 okidata pbm pcl5 postscript pslatex pstex 
>> pstricks qms regis starc svg tandy_60dpi tek40xx tek410x texdraw tgif 
>> tkcanvas tpic unknown vttek x11 xlib xterm
> 
> Ok. I suspect that regexp isn't working correctly. First check the regexp 
> libs. Mine is below.
> 
> octave:1> octave_config_info.REGEX_LIBS 
> ans = -L/sw/lib -lpcre
> 
> Now, make sure this is where the problem is.
> 
> octave:1> peaks
> octave:2> terms = __gnuplot_get_var__ (gcf, "GPVAL_TERMINALS");
> octave:3> terms = regexp (terms, '\b\w+\b', "match");
> octave:4> disp(char(terms))
> aqua        
> canvas      
> cgm         
> corel       
> dpu414      
> dumb        
> dxf         
> eepic       
> emf         
> emtex       
> epslatex    
> epson_180dpi
> epson_60dpi 
> epson_lx800 
> fig         
> gif         
> gnugraph    
> gpic        
> hp2623A     
> hp2648      
> hp500c      
> hpdj        
> hpgl        
> hpljii      
> hppj        
> imagen      
> jpeg        
> latex       
> lua         
> mf          
> mif         
> mp          
> nec_cp6     
> okidata     
> pbm         
> pcl5        
> pdf         
> pdfcairo    
> png         
> pngcairo    
> postscript  
> pslatex     
> pstex       
> pstricks    
> qms         
> regis       
> rgip        
> starc       
> svg         
> tandy_60dpi 
> tek40xx     
> tek410x     
> texdraw     
> tgif        
> 
> Assuming that the regexp command does not give the proper result ...
> 
> In /usr/lib, I see the following pcre libs.
> 
> libpcre.0.0.1.dylib
> libpcre.0.dylib
> libpcre.dylib
> libpcreposix.0.0.0.dylib
> libpcreposix.0.dylib
> libpcreposix.dylib
> 
> I'm guessing you are configured with libpcre.dylib. Try switching to 
> libpcreposix.dylib.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 

REGEX_LIBS is blank. I didn't compile with PCRE, I was informed by the 
configure script that it was optional.

I'll try to compile it now.

Campbell