Re: cs-list errors and Ghostscript warning when trying to print

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

As far as I remember,

epstool  and pstoedit are required and fig2dev is optional for fltk printing 
for unixy environments
including mac OS X.

Please install them.

Regards

Tatsuro
--- Richard Campbell  wrote:

> 
> On Jan 30, 2011, at 3:53 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
> > On 29-Jan-2011, Richard Campbell wrote:
> > 
> > | In my build of Octave 3.3.54 I get the following during 'make check'
> > | 
> > | Integrated test scripts:
> > | 
> > | invalid assignment to cs-list outside multiple assignment.
> > | 
> > | The build is as described earlier for Mac OSX with minimal dependencies.
> > 
> > I don't see that error.  It may be that it is happening because you
> > haven't installed all the dependencies, but we try to make the tests
> > run anyway, just skipping the ones that can't work because of missing
> > dependencies.  So will you try to debug where it is coming from?
> > The first set of "Integrated test scripts" that are normally executed
> > are from the file src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/besselj.cc.  To run them outside
> > of "make check", please try the following
> > 
> >  ./run-octave
> >  ...
> >  octave:1> cd /src/tree/directory/src/DLD-FUNTIONS
> >  octave:2> test besselj.cc
> > 
> > (where /src/tree/directory is wherever your top-level Octave source
> > tree is) and let us know what happens.
> > 
> > | When I try to print, I get:
> > | 
> > | octave:2> print('-dpng','test.png')
> > | warning: print.m: ghostscript not found in EXEC_PATH.
> > | warning: print.m: Ghostscript binary is not available.
> > | warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
> > | warning: print.m: fig2dev binary is not available.
> > | warning: print.m: pstoedit binary is not available.
> > | error: invalid assignment to cs-list outside multiple assignment.
> > | error: matrix cannot be indexed with {
> > | error: evaluating argument list element number 3
> > | error: called from:
> > | error:   /Users/campbell/Downloads/octave-3.3.54/scripts/plot/print.m at 
> > line 377, column 9
> > | 
> > | The Ghostscript warning is confusing because I have libpng installed, and 
> > twice during
> 'configure' it is stated that
> > | 
> > | configure: WARNING: I didn't find ghostscript, but it's only a problem if 
> > you need to
> reconstruct figures for the manual
> > 
> > I think this message is incorrect now.  Previously, we only used
> > ghostscript to generate some output formats when building the Octave
> > documentation.  Now it is used in printing as well, to convert PS to
> > various formats.
> > 
> > I changed the configure warning to be
> > 
> >  I didn't find ghostscript, so reconstructing figures for the manual
> >  will fail, and saving graphics in some output formats will fail when
> >  using Octave
> > 
> > jwe
> 
> Okay, after installing Ghostscript (which builds fine on OSX with ./configure 
> && make && sudo
> make install, no funny stuff) that warning alone goes away, leaving:
> 
> octave:4> print('-dpng','test.png')
> warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
> warning: print.m: fig2dev binary is not available.
> warning: print.m: pstoedit binary is not available.
> error: invalid assignment to cs-list outside multiple assignment.
> error: matrix cannot be indexed with {
> error: evaluating argument list element number 3
> error: called from:
> error:   /Users/campbell/Downloads/octave-3.3.54/scripts/plot/print.m at line 
> 377, column 9
> 
> 


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