Re: Octave-maintainers Digest, Vol 72, Issue 66

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:34 PM, c. <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 16 Mar 2012, at 15:14, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:09:07 +0100
>> From: Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden>
>> To: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>
>> Subject: pkg.m
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Debugging the installation of the package geometry-1.4.0[1] I found
>> that pkg is creating a PKG_ADD script that contains many copies of the
>> PKG_ADD script packaged with geometry. Is this the expected behavior?
>>
>> Additionally, before starting with this I could install geometry from
>> forge without any problems, i.e.
>> pkg -forge install geometry
>> gave no errors. After testing the -prefix option (to understand the
>> problem reported), I am not able to install from forge anymore:
>>
>> <...>
>>
>> Help? Ideas?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> [1] 
>> http://gnu-octave-repository.2306053.n4.nabble.com/geometry-1-4-0-cannot-handle-installation-prefixes-td4463998.html
>>
>
> Juan Pablo,
>
> I cannot replicate tha behaviour on my system, what I get is:
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>>> pkg install -forge -verbose geometry
> mkdir (/var/tmp/oct-NqqN7i)
> untar 
> (/Users/carlo/Desktop/OF/octave/octave/scripts/pkg/geometry-1.4.0.tar.gz, 
> /var/tmp/oct-NqqN7i)
> warning: Copying subfolder src to package main dir, but multiple Makefiles 
> are not handled
> mkoctfile: stripping disabled on this platform
> mkoctfile -c -Wall -Wextra -I. compilador.c -o compilador.o
> mkoctfile -c -Wall -Wextra -I. errores.c -o errores.o
> mkoctfile -c -Wall -Wextra -I. eucli.c -o eucli.o
> mkoctfile -c -Wall -Wextra -I. fgeneral.c -o fgeneral.o
> mkoctfile -c -Wall -Wextra -I. greiner.c -o greiner.o
> mkoctfile -c -Wall -Wextra -I. polig.c -o polig.o
> mkoctfile -c -Wall -Wextra -I. ptopol.c -o ptopol.o
> mkoctfile -c -Wall -Wextra -I. segmento.c -o segmento.o
> mkoctfile -c -Wall -Wextra -I. ventorno.c -o ventorno.o
> mkoctfile -s -Wall -Wextra -I. _oc_polybool.cc *.o
> rm -rf *.o *~
> copyfile /var/tmp/oct-NqqN7i/geometry/src/_oc_polybool.oct 
> /var/tmp/oct-NqqN7i/geometry/inst/x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0-api-v48+
> For information about changes from previous versions of the geometry package, 
> run 'news ("geometry")'.
>
> and the contents of PKG_ADD seem OK to me.
>
> c.
>
>

Thank you Carlo,

Regarding the installation problem, it has sopmething to do with the
libhdf5 installe din my system (not -serial, cause it doesn't like
gmsh, and the it is reciprocated by gmsh).

Regarding the strange behavior of PKG_ADD. I added a "keyboard"
command to PKG_ADD then track its behavior. The changes happing in the
flow of the code, but finally the file gets overwritten. I will pursue
this more since I am not able to fix geometry so far (when using
custom prefixes).

i will update with my findings.

-- 
M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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PhD Student
University of Zürich
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/