Q. Re Octave-Forge

[Terry Duell]

Hullo All,
I am just getting started with Octave, so if I ask some dumb questions,
I apologise...just point me in the right direction before 'setting me
straight' :-)
I am running Fedora Core 3, which has Octave 2.1.57 included. I found that
was a bit shy of a number of Matlab compatible functions that I needed, and
after snooping found Octave-forge-2005.06.13.
I built the octave-forge distribution but when I ran make-check it reported
that quite a number of tests failed. So I removed Octave 2.1.57 and installed
2.1.71, although I didn't install the GiNac or the Qhull libraries on the
basis that I really didn't expect to be needing them anytime soon.
I rebuilt octave-forge, but it still reports quite a few tests failing. Is
this fairly normal?
A detailed look through the 'index' file of octave-forge shows it has many
functions that would be of use to me, but when I look in the folders
(directories) the source for some of these doesn't appear to exist, e.g.
I think transpose is supposed to be in the 'matrix' folder, but the 'matrix'
folder doesn't exist! Is the 'index' really correct?
Thanks in anticipation,

Cheers,
-- 
Regards,
Terry Duell



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