octave-3.0.1 building on ubuntu/gutsy - intel x32

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Levente Torok <toroklev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Devs,
>
> Sorry, if I submit bugs that are already solved but I found no way to search the archives easily.
> So here is my report,
>
> -------------------
>
> During the  compilation of octave-3.0.1 on gutsy I met the following compilation errors:
>
>
> EXINPUTS="..:.:./..::" texi2pdf ./octave.texi
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>  file:line:error style messages enabled.
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (/home/lev/octave-3.0.1/doc/interpreter/octave.texi
>
>
> [169] [170] [171] [172] [173] [174] [175] [176] [177] [178] [179] [180]
> [181]) (./plot.texi Chapter 15 [182]
> ./plot.texi:68: epsf.tex not found, images will be ignored.
> @image ...f.tex not found, images will be ignored}
>                                                  @global @warnednoepsftrue ...
> l.68 @image{plot,8cm}
>
> ?
> ------------
> I don't know if the possiblity of running octave locally with script ./run-octave existed before but it is great!
> Thanks.
>
> However, after strating it I experienced the following:
> ------------
> warning: LOADPATH is no longer a built-in variable; please read the NEWS file or type `news' for details
> error: `LOADPATH' undefined near line 1 column 11
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 1, column 9
> error: near line 1 of file `/home/lev/.octaverc'


using LOADPATH is obsolete. Fix your .octaverc to use path() instead.


> octave:1> news
> error: news: unable to locate NEWS file
> error: evaluating if command near line 29, column 3
> error: called from `news' in file `/home/lev/octave-3.0.1/scripts/miscellaneous/news.m'
>

Apparently "news" doesn't work when octave is not installed. Please
just read the NEWS file in your octave-3.0.1 directory. I'll check
what is wrong.


> So there is no "news".
> -----
> On the other hand I was told that "help -i" is not supported anymore
> But it still works. I suggest it be removed for avoiding further confusion.
>

It works precisely to avoid confusion. But please use "doc" instead.

regards,

> Thank you all,
>
> Levente Torok
>
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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
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Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
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