Benjamin - Thank you very much for your help and your patience. I'd seen that note about segfaulting but didn't notice that it involved the Windows package, or at least didn't remember it by the time I got to trying the .m file that requires the Windows package.
While such a situation exists, would it be feasible to add a check for packages that are installed but not loaded before giving the 'undefined' message? Thanks again. - Robert On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Benjamin Lindner wrote: > >> I've just installed Octave 3.2.3 using the Windows Installer of >> Octave and Octave-Forge from http://octave.sourceforge.net/index.html. >> I selected the Signal and Windows packages, and I saw the Windows >> package being processed near the end of the installation process. >> However, when I invoke a .m file that contains a call to >> actxserver I get the error message >> error: `actxserver' undefined near line 29 column 8 >> Is there something more I need to do in order to use it? > > As the README, CHANGELOG and KNOWN_ISSUES files point out, > there is an issue with "clear all" segfaulting octave when > certain packages are loaded > (mind, only if they are loaded, not simply installed) > > This is a rather nasty bug, so to avoid having octave simply > crashing by default these packages are marked "-noauto" which > means they are not automatically loaded when octave starts. > > This concerns the packages windows, communications, ga and octcdf. > > If you require any functions from these packages you have to > manually load them by doing > pkg load windows > > If you want to have them loaded automatically, do > pkg rebuild -auto windows > > be aware that this then triggers the "clear all" issue. > > Yes I know this is not exactly comfortable, but that's the way is > is currently. > > benjamin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
