Re: plotting problem on Mac OSX

[Richard Kirk]

On 16 Jul 2013, at 21:40, Chris Daamen wrote:

Op 16 jul. 2013, om 22:21 heeft Ben Abbott het volgende geschreven:

Regarding an app-bundle, there' s a page for that as well.

http://wiki.octave.org/Create_a_MacOS_X_App_Bundle_Using_MacPorts

I had an octave version that I had tried to update, but the updated version did not work. My solution was to remove all versions of octave, and all outdated and inactive ports. You can find the octave ports with…

> port installed | grep octave

You have have more than one installation. I had three. I uninstalled them, and then uninstalled the inactive and unused ports, which may have included port used by the old versions of octave. 

I then installed octave from scratch pretty much as described, and everything worked. I suspect it was updating octave to the right gcc version, but missing the same checks in the other ports. There is a lot of stuff going and coming when updating octave: update ought to work but it is not completely surprising that it gets in a knot sometimes. Flushing it all out takes a bit of time, but you don't have to think.

I don't know whether that is worth suggesting in the web page, but it is the only thing I can think I might add.

Cheers.

Richard Kirk

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