Octave packages

[William Davis]

On Nov 24, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Robert Fong-tom wrote:

>
> On Nov 24, 2008, at 2:19 AM, Alakazam wrote:
>
>> Hello Robert,
>>
>> On 24 nov. 08, at 06:51, Robert Fong-tom wrote:
>>
>>> I noticed that some functions of the packages listed at http://octave.sourceforge.net/ 
>>>  does not exist in the packages ported from MacPorts. Foe example,  
>>> in octave-financial the function does not appear to exist in the  
>>> MacPorts ported version. However, the MacPorts version of octave- 
>>> image is 0.2.2 while the version at octave.sourceforge.net is 0.3.0.
>>
>> This seems to indicate that we (the octave portfile maintainers)  
>> should update the octave-* packages. I'll try to look into it this  
>> week. You can also open a ticket on the trac system to indicate the  
>> outdated ports (https://trac.macports.org/newticket, registration  
>> required iirc).
>>
>>> Another example is the busdays function in the octave-time  
>>> package. Where can I find  the functions available on my system? I  
>>> would like to check to make sure that these functions do not exist  
>>> on my system.
>>
>> If your macports installation is standard, you can find the octave- 
>> * files in
>>
>>> /opt/local/libexec/octave/packages
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Alakazam <alakazam at melix.net>
>>
> Thanks for the response. Here is the problem then. When I execute  
> the "port installed" command at a terminal, I get a long list of  
> installed items including octave-time and octave-financial. But when  
> I look in the directory you gave me above the packages octave-time  
> and octave-financial are missing. (Others that I ported are there)  
> The problem may not be missing functions, but that these packages  
> may have failed to port although no errors were reported during the  
> port! I will try to uninstall the ghost ports and re-install them  
> and see if this works.
>
> I ported every thing using the default settings of MacPorts. The  
> thing is, I am not sure where macPorts put all the executables and  
> how they are linked.

port contents foo
will show you the location off each file installed by port foo


William Davis
frstanATbellsouthDOTnet
Mac OS X.5.5 Darwin 9.5.0
XQuartz 2.3.2_rc1 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple23)
Mac Mini Intel Duo @ 1.86 GHz

Mundus vult decepi, ego non

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/attachments/20081124/ba01a8c5/attachment.html>