Problems in installing Octave General package

[Guido Walter Pettinari]

Hi,

this is my first post to this mailing list. I am a PhD student in  
Cosmology and I often use Octave. I really appreciate it as a  
convenient alternative to Matlab.

I am performing some intensive number crunching hence I would like to  
use both CPUs of my MacBook Pro, which runs Mac Os X 10.6, aka Snow  
Leopard. I therefore downloaded the Octave General package from Octave  
Forge to make use of the parcellfun function for parallel computing (http://octave.sourceforge.net/general/index.html 
) .

I tried to install the package with the usual command:
pkg install general-1.1.3.tar.gz
but I got a lot of errors, mainly complains about dynamical libraries  
not being of the required architecture (please see the output below).

As a side note, I installed Octave from the Octave.app project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20MacOSX%20Binary 
), hence I did not compile it on my machine.

Thank you for any help!

Cheers,

Guido Walter Pettinari

P.S. Can I attach text files or PDFs to my email while sending it to  
the mailing list?

octave-3.2.3:1> pkg install /Users/coccoinomane/Downloads/ 
octave_packages/general-1.1.3.tar.gz
ld: warning: in /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ 
octave-3.2.3, file is not of required architecture
ld: warning: in /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib/ 
octave-3.2.3/liboctinterp.dylib, file is not of required architecture
ld: warning: in /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib/ 
octave-3.2.3/liboctave.dylib, file is not of required architecture
ld: warning: in /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib/ 
octave-3.2.3/libcruft.dylib, file is not of required architecture
ld: warning: in /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib/ 
libfftw3.dylib, file is not of required architecture
ld: warning: in /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib/ 
libfftw3f.dylib, file is not of required architecture
ld: warning: in /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib/ 
libreadline.dylib, file is not of required architecture
ld: warning: in /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib/ 
libhdf5.dylib, file is not of required architecture
ld: warning: in /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib/ 
libz.dylib, file is not of required architecture
ld: warning: in /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib/ 
gcc-lib/i386-apple-darwin8.11.1/4.0.3/libf95.a, file is not of  
required architecture
ld: warning: in /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib/ 
gcc-lib/i386-apple-darwin8.11.1/4.0.3/libgcc.a, file is not of  
required architecture
Undefined symbols:
 "Array<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,  
std::allocator<char> > >::~Array()", referenced from:
     string_vector::~string_vector()in SHA1.o
     string_vector::~string_vector()in SHA1.o
 "Array<double>::~Array()", referenced from:
     FSHA1(octave_value_list const&, int)in SHA1.o
     FSHA1(octave_value_list const&, int)in SHA1.o
     FSHA1(octave_value_list const&, int)in SHA1.o
     FSHA1(octave_value_list const&, int)in SHA1.o
     vtable for Array<double>in SHA1.o
 "_error_state", referenced from:
     _GSHA1 in SHA1.o
 "usage(char const*, ...)", referenced from:
     FSHA1(octave_value_list const&, int)in SHA1.o
 "Array<double>::~Array()", referenced from:
     MArray<double>::~MArray()in SHA1.o
     MArray<double>::~MArray()in SHA1.o
     MArray<double>::~MArray()in SHA1.o
 "Array<octave_value>::make_unique()", referenced from:
     Array<octave_value>::elem(int)    in SHA1.o
 "Array<double>::make_unique()", referenced from:
     Array<double>::elem(int)in SHA1.o
 "Array<octave_value>::resize_fill(int, octave_value const&)",  
referenced from:
     Array<octave_value>::resize(int)    in SHA1.o
 "octave_value::octave_value(RowVector const&)", referenced from:
     FSHA1(octave_value_list const&, int)in SHA1.o
 "octave_dld_function::create(octave_value_list (*)(octave_value_list  
const&, int), octave_shlib const&, std::basic_string<char,  
std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&,  
std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >  
const&)", referenced from:
     _GSHA1 in SHA1.o
 "check_version(std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,  
std::allocator<char> > const&, std::basic_string<char,  
std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)", referenced  
from:
     _GSHA1 in SHA1.o
 "Array<octave_value>::~Array()", referenced from:
     vtable for Array<octave_value>in SHA1.o
 "Array<octave_value>::resize_fill_value()", referenced from:
     Array<octave_value>::resize(int)    in SHA1.o
 "octave_value::vector_value(bool, bool) const", referenced from:
     FSHA1(octave_value_list const&, int)in SHA1.o
     FSHA1(octave_value_list const&, int)in SHA1.o
 "vtable for octave_base_value", referenced from:
     octave_base_value::octave_base_value()in SHA1.o
     octave_base_value::~octave_base_value()in SHA1.o
 "Array<octave_value>::~Array()", referenced from:
     octave_value_list::octave_value_list()in SHA1.o
     octave_value_list::~octave_value_list()in SHA1.o
     octave_value_list::~octave_value_list()in SHA1.o
     vtable for Array<octave_value>in SHA1.o
 "Array<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,  
std::allocator<char> > >::~Array()", referenced from:
     vtable for Array<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,  
std::allocator<char> > >in SHA1.o
 "error(char const*, ...)", referenced from:
     FSHA1(octave_value_list const&, int)in SHA1.o
 "Array<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,  
std::allocator<char> > >::~Array()", referenced from:
     vtable for Array<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,  
std::allocator<char> > >in SHA1.o
 "Array<double>::~Array()", referenced from:
     vtable for Array<double>in SHA1.o
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [SHA1.oct] Error 1
'make' returned the following error: mkoctfile SHA1.cc
error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file /Applications/Octave/ 
Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.2.3/m/pkg/pkg.m near line  
1253, column 2
error: called from:
error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/ 
octave/3.2.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 714, column 5
error:   /Applications/Octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/share/ 
octave/3.2.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 287, column 7