Re: cs-list error with MacOS [was: Octave-3.3.55 and Octave-3.3.90 on OSX]

[Richard Campbell]

On Feb 6, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Feb 6, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Richard Campbell wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 6, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:02 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 30-Jan-2011, Richard Campbell wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> | The front page should be updated to indicate that Octave-3.3.54 is 
>>>>>>> not the newest developer snapshot. Having just found out about 3.3.55 
>>>>>>> and 3.3.90, I attempted to build both of them.
>>>>>>> | 
>>>>>>> | Octave 3.3.55 builds fine, but fails 'make check':
>>>>>>> | 
>>>>>>> | Making check in test
>>>>>>> | ./build_sparse_tests.sh
>>>>>>> | ./build_bc_overload_tests.sh ./bc_overloads_expected
>>>>>>> | ../run-octave --norc --silent --no-history ./fntests.m .
>>>>>>> | 
>>>>>>> | Integrated test scripts:
>>>>>>> | 
>>>>>>> | make[2]: *** [check] Abort trap
>>>>>>> | make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
>>>>>>> | make: *** [check] Error 2
>>>>>>> | 
>>>>>>> | When I run it, I get the same cs-list error when trying to print that 
>>>>>>> I've been getting in 3.3.54.
>>>>>>> | 
>>>>>>> | 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
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I checked in the following changeset.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/cb4ac5e4d987
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Does this change fix the problem for you?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> jwe
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yes, that fix allows me to build Octave 3.3.90, but it doesn't fix the 
>>>>>> cs-list error, pasted below.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> octave:1> plot(randn(10,1))
>>>>>> 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-3.3.90/scripts/plot/print.m at 
>>>>>> line 390, column 11
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Make check also reports a cs-list error but does not crash like it does 
>>>>>> in 3.3.55.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please also give us the details for the cs-list error which occurs when 
>>>>> you run "make check".
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ben
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Making check in test
>>>> ../run-octave --norc --silent --no-history ./fntests.m .
>>>> 
>>>> Integrated test scripts:
>>>> 
>>>> invalid assignment to cs-list outside multiple assignment
>>> 
>>> Richard,
>>> 
>>> I've built a 32bit Octave using the manual instructions in README.MacOS
>>> 
>>> Please confirm the following gives you the cs-list error.
>>> 
>>>     info = struct (zeros (0, 1), {"name"});
>>>     info(1,1).name = "foobar";
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> Ben,
>> 
>> The error seems to be fixed in 3.3.92, when building as 32-bit. Note that it 
>> has appeared to be fixed in 64-bit (with blaswrap, without -ff2c) since 
>> 3.3.55 or so.
>> 
>> I do get many lines of
>> 
>> warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
>> 
>> when plotting, in both 32- and 64-bit. This didn't happen in <= 3.3.91.
>> 
>> Campbell
> 
> I'm seeing the cs-list error in a 32bit build of 3.3.92.
> 
> Regarding the ft_render warning, please construct a simple example, and start 
> a new thread.
> 
> I suspect that some recent changes by Konstas <address@hidden> are related, 
> so please cc him as well.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> 
> Ben
> 
> 

Let me try again, on my laptop. I'm running out of machines, though.

Campbell