Re: installation error statistics-1.1.0 on octave 3.5.90+

[indium]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:17:28PM +0100, indium wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I have upgraded to the latest development version on ubuntu linux on a
> macbook pro 6,2. I get the following error below. 
> 
> Despite the error, the package is in the list. I'm not sure whether this bug 
> report is worth mentioning,
> but at least 'doc fstat' does not work (and I need this to know how to test).
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
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> 
> warning: function /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/strings-1.0.7/strtrim.m 
> shadows a core library function
> warning: function /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/statistics-1.1.0/fstat.m 
> shadows a core library function
> warning: function /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/statistics-1.1.0/zscore.m 
> shadows a core library function
> octave:1> pkg install "statistics-1.1.0.tar.gz" 
> warning: function /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/statistics-1.1.0/fstat.m 
> shadows a core library function
> warning: function /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/statistics-1.1.0/zscore.m 
> shadows a core library function
> /tmp/octave-help-sYBmN0:43: Unmatched }.
> /tmp/octave-help-sYBmN0:75: Unknown command `seealso'.
> /tmp/octave-help-sYBmN0:75: Misplaced {.
> warning: gen_doc_cache: unusable help text found in file 'pdist'
> warning: function /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/statistics-1.1.0/fstat.m 
> shadows a core library function
> warning: function /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/statistics-1.1.0/zscore.m 
> shadows a core library function
> For information about changes from previous versions of the statistics 
> package, run 'news ("statistics")'.
> octave:2> pkg list
> Package Name       | Version | Installation directory
> -------------------+---------+-----------------------
>                io *|  1.0.14 | /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/io-1.0.14
>     miscellaneous *|  1.0.11 | 
> /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/miscellaneous-1.0.11
>             optim *|  1.0.17 | /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/optim-1.0.17
> physicalconstants *|   0.1.7 | 
> /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/physicalconstants-0.1.7
>        quaternion *|   1.0.0 | /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/quaternion-1.0.0
>        statistics *|   1.1.0 | /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/statistics-1.1.0
>           strings *|   1.0.7 | /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/strings-1.0.7
>            struct *|   1.0.9 | /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/struct-1.0.9
>              time *|   1.0.9 | /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/time-1.0.9
>              vrml *|  1.0.11 | /D/network/me/share/octave/mbp/vrml-1.0.11
> octave:3> 
> 
> 

a 'justification' for using the development version: I run on multiple
linux platforms that typically have different stable versions of octave
(or even gnuplot/fltk), so I decided to compile the development version
on each platform. I usually don't do 'bleading edge computing', and
have not run into bugs that were caused by using the development
version. I realize I shouldn't bother you with bugs due to the
unstability of my version, but I don't think I have done so up till now.

thanks