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

[Richard Campbell]

On Jan 30, 2011, at 10:36 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I'm not a specialist for printing.
> Ben Abbott will help.
> 
> BTW, the source 3.3.54 is old. Please use the latest snapshot at 
> http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/octave/ 
> print.m function is revised from 3.3.54.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro
> 
> 
> --- Richard Campbell  wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jan 30, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>> 
>>> 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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>> 
>> 
>> I'm not using fltk - I'm using gnuplot and X11.
>> 
>> I still get the cs-list error. All the others are warnings and only appear 
>> the first time print
>> is called. Can we address the error?
>> 
>> octave:2> print('-dpng','test.png')
>> warning: print.m: fig2dev 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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Octave 3.3.90 fails to build:

libtool: compile:  g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -m32 -D_REENTRANT -I../libgnu 
-I../libgnu -I../libcruft/misc -I../liboctave -I../liboctave -I. -I. -m32 
-D_REENTRANT -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/X11/include/freetype2 
-I/usr/X11/include -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -Wpointer-arith 
-Wwrite-strings -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -g -O2 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread -g -O2 
-MT liboctinterp_la-txt-eng-ft.lo -MD -MP -MF 
.deps/liboctinterp_la-txt-eng-ft.Tpo -c txt-eng-ft.cc  -fno-common -DPIC -o 
.libs/liboctinterp_la-txt-eng-ft.o
txt-eng-ft.cc: In constructor ‘ft_manager::ft_manager()’:
txt-eng-ft.cc:78: error: class ‘ft_manager’ does not have any field named 
‘fc_init_done’
txt-eng-ft.cc: At global scope:
txt-eng-ft.cc:107: warning: unused parameter ‘name’
txt-eng-ft.cc:107: warning: unused parameter ‘weight’
txt-eng-ft.cc:107: warning: unused parameter ‘angle’
txt-eng-ft.cc:107: warning: unused parameter ‘size’
make[3]: *** [liboctinterp_la-txt-eng-ft.lo] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2