Re: Newbie problem running *.m files on Octave 3.4.2 on Snow Leopard

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 30 July 2011 20:41, John Helly <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've put /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/MacOS in my path and
> aliased octave='Octave' and I can start 'octave' from the Terminal
> command-line but whether I give it a *.m filename or not it always
> opens up an interactive session.

What did you type, what was the exact output? I find it odd that if
you type "octave -q foo.m", you end up in an interactive session, if
this is indeed what you're doing.

> I've also tried building octave-3.4.2 but it fails with a flex
> problem in builtins.cc that seems to be an old problem and I can't
> figure that out.

Can you say what the problem is? Just post the error messages you see.

> I then tried building from the source gotten from
>
> hg clone http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
>
> but that doesn't seem to have configure bundled with it.

These are developer sources and not recommended unless you want to
help with Octave's development itself. You have to build your own
configure script using GNU autotools if you want to work from the hg
sources. If you have installed autotools (and git, and probably many
many other things), do "./autogen.sh" to produce a configure script.

HTH,
- Jordi G. H.