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

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 5, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Pantxo wrote:

> During configure phase I don't obtain any special warning about missing
> dependencies. I exported environnement variables following exactly the ones
> proposed README.MacOsX. The only change I made was adding --disable-docs in
> ./configure options.  
> 
> At build time the only warning is "‘__base_ctor ’ is deprecated (declared at
> ../liboctave/dim-vector.h:152)", and make check seems (I didn't watch very
> deep) to pass at every stage with a few warnings. 
> I didn't try make install as it is said not to be supported in
> README.MacOsX.
> 
> As an example:
> ./run-octave 
> octave:1> plot(1:10)
> octave:2> print('-dpdf','lolo.pdf')
> 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/.../Desktop/octave-3.4.0/scripts/plot/print.m at line 390,
> column 11
> 
> The example that was given previously in this thread also fails :
> 
> octave:3> info = struct (zeros (0, 1), {"name"}); 
> octave:4> info(1,1).name = "foobar"; 
> error: invalid assignment to cs-list outside multiple assignment

Ok. I see this is the same error I had gotten with 3.3.90.

Richard had indicated that this was fixed in 3.3.92.

Although, I haven't tried to build 3.4.0, so I can't confirm if this is a 
general problem or not.

Ben