[OS X] Fwd: octave-forge bug report: round() and H5 symbols

[Andy Jacobson]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Andy Jacobson <andyj at splash.princeton.edu>
> Date: September 9, 2005 9:10:06 AM EDT
> To: Corey Halpin <chalpin at cs.wisc.edu>
> Subject: Re: octave-forge bug report: round() and H5 symbols
>
>
>
> On Sep 8, 2005, at 10:51 PM, Corey Halpin wrote:
>
>
>>
>>   That octave version looks like it came from 10.4-transitional/ 
>> stable.
>>
>>
>
> Very possible.  Like many of my colleagues, an understanding of  
> fink's organizational structure is something I can only  
> intermittently keep swapped-in.  There are many of us who resort to  
> voodoo instead of logic when setting up fink.  My recipe is usually  
> to install everything I can using apt-get under the default /sw/etc/ 
> fink.conf.  Then, when I need r-base, which is perpetually only  
> available in source form in unstable, I edit /sw/etc/fink.conf to  
> add the unstable keywords.  Then I usually forget to do a fink  
> selfupdate before trying to install unstable packages, then I do a  
> fink index followed by a fink install r-base.  I ctrl-c out of the  
> fink install once I get the list of dependencies that need to be  
> installed, and try to install them from binary using apt-get.   
> Finally I do a fink install to compile only the stuff I really  
> need.  Is that the kind of jiggery-pokery that can lead to  
> incompatible versions of packages on my machine?  (Thanks for  
> reading this if you got this far.)
>
>
>>   What does the Trees: line in your /sw/etc/fink.conf look like?
>>
>>
>
> Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main unstable/ 
> crypto
>
> ...but it got that way following the path I detailed above.
>
>
>>   Could you send me the output of
>>   machine
>>   uname -a
>>   fink --version
>>   gcc --version
>>   g++ --version
>>   make --version
>>   fink list octave
>>   grep Trees /sw/etc/fink.conf
>>
>>
>>
>
> Here you go:
>
>
> machine
> ppc7450
>
> uname -a
> Darwin dahomey.princeton.edu 8.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.2.0: Fri  
> Jun 24 17:46:54 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.2.4.obj~3/RELEASE_PPC Power  
> Macintosh powerpc
>
> fink --version
> Package manager version: 0.24.10
> Distribution version: 0.8.0.cvs
>
> Copyright (c) 2001 Christoph Pfisterer
> Copyright (c) 2001-2005 The Fink Package Manager Team
> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> GNU General Public License for more details.
>
> gcc --version
> powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0 (GCC) 4.0.0 20041026 (Apple  
> Computer, Inc. build 4061)
> Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.   
> There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  
> PURPOSE.
>
>
> g++ --version
> powerpc-apple-darwin8-g++-4.0.0 (GCC) 4.0.0 20041026 (Apple  
> Computer, Inc. build 4061)
> Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.   
> There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  
> PURPOSE.
>
>
> make --version
> GNU Make 3.80
> Copyright (C) 2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
> There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> fink list octave
> Information about 4879 packages read in 4 seconds.
> (i)  octave                             2.1.71-1                    
> Matlab-like language for computations
>      octave-forge                       2005.06.13-2                
> Extensions to octave
>
> grep Trees /sw/etc/fink.conf
> Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main unstable/ 
> crypto
>
>
> Thanks, Corey!
>
>     -Andy
>
> --
> Andy Jacobson
>
> andyj at splash.princeton.edu
>
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Andy Jacobson

andyj at splash.princeton.edu

Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
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Princeton University
PO Box CN710 Princeton, NJ 08544-0710 USA

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