Re: No octave prompt (no error messages)
Robbie Gates wrote: Check also that your PATH includes /usr/lib/lapack, as octave appears to need the dlls found there. My default path doesn't contain this, Lapack is installed in /usr/lib/lapack, which is not on the path by default. It is then added to the end of the path at login by /etc/profile.d/lapack.[sh|csh]. This is a design decision taken so that users may compile their own optimized atlas libraries, linked with lapack, and install them in /usr/local/bin, which would normally precede /usr/lib/lapack in the path. The optimized libraries would then be used in preference to the generic ones. Instructions on how to do this are in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/lapack-3.0.README It requires, of course, downloading the lapack source package, and building from source. More detailed instructions are in the source package. Users who insist on trying to use octave outside of the normal bash or c-shell login process, will likely find it non-functional due to the lapack libraries not being found. This may also happen if the user's ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc, etc, modify the path that is set by default during the processing of /etc/profile and the scripts in /etc/profile.d. If cygwin octave is being heavily used, it is really worth building and installing the optimized libraries. User reports regarding attempts to do so would be appreciated. Some may wonder why pre-built optimized libraries are not available. The design of atlas makes this very difficult to do, because atlas wants to iterativey test its optimizations and customize them to your precise cpu architecture. Yes, Debian somehow manages to build and package optimized libraries, but they do it in a way that subverts the upstream design approach of atlas. It _wants_ to optimize to your precise cpu architecture, so you might as well let it. James R. Phillips cygwin lapack/octave packager -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: No octave prompt (no error messages)
On 07 December 2006 14:22, Tony Richardson wrote: Albert Vos vos_albert at hotmail.com writes: at home and at work I have the same problem with octave under cygwin. In both cases I octave just quits without giving any output, no prompt, no error messages. One computer runs on win2000 Sp4 on which I'm no administrator and the other runs on winXp Sp2 on which I have all rights. You might try starting octave using octave -V or octave -x (or both) to determine if it is getting hung in one of the startup scripts. Otherwise follow the problem reporting guidelines ... Tony Richardson Also try cygcheck -c octave, which verifies the package is intact. If that doesn't show anything, try cygcheck /bin/octave.exe which shows all the DLLs that octave depends on, and make sure they're all installed: maybe there's a missed dependency in the setup.ini lines. octave -V, octave -x, octave -V -x all output nothing cygcheck -c octave Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus octave 2.1.73-1 OK cygcheck /bin/octave.exe M:/cygwin/bin/octave.exe I attached the cygcheck.out file, as requested. It was made on the win2000 computer with rxvt as terminal, but I have the same problem with cmd as terminal. _ Play online games with your friends with Messenger http://www.join.msn.com/messenger/overview cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: No octave prompt (no error messages)
Albert Vos wrote: On 07 December 2006 14:22, Tony Richardson wrote: Albert Vos vos_albert at hotmail.com writes: at home and at work I have the same problem with octave under cygwin. In both cases I octave just quits without giving any output, no prompt, no error messages. One computer runs on win2000 Sp4 on which I'm no administrator and the other runs on winXp Sp2 on which I have all rights. You might try starting octave using octave -V or octave -x (or both) to determine if it is getting hung in one of the startup scripts. Otherwise follow the problem reporting guidelines ... Tony Richardson Also try cygcheck -c octave, which verifies the package is intact. If that doesn't show anything, try cygcheck /bin/octave.exe which shows all the DLLs that octave depends on, and make sure they're all installed: maybe there's a missed dependency in the setup.ini lines. octave -V, octave -x, octave -V -x all output nothing cygcheck -c octave Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus octave 2.1.73-1 OK cygcheck /bin/octave.exe M:/cygwin/bin/octave.exe I attached the cygcheck.out file, as requested. It was made on the win2000 computer with rxvt as terminal, but I have the same problem with cmd as terminal. You mean 'cmd.exe' or 'bash' in 'cmd.exe'? If the latter, remove 'tty' from your CYGWIN environment variable and try again. See: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: No octave prompt (no error messages)
Albert Vos writes: at home and at work I have the same problem with octave under cygwin. In both cases I octave just quits without giving any output, no prompt, no error messages. Check also that your PATH includes /usr/lib/lapack, as octave appears to need the dlls found there. My default path doesn't contain this, and octave by itself fails as you describe: : 1007; octave : 1008; echo $? 53 whereas : 1009; PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/lapack octave GNU Octave, version 2.1.73 (i686-pc-cygwin). [...] octave:1 quit : 1010; echo $? 0 - robbie -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
No octave prompt (no error messages)
Hi, at home and at work I have the same problem with octave under cygwin. In both cases I octave just quits without giving any output, no prompt, no error messages. One computer runs on win2000 Sp4 on which I'm no administrator and the other runs on winXp Sp2 on which I have all rights. Both cygwin environment are downloaded this month. I have no idea what the problem is, can anyone help me find out?? Albert _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new Windows Live Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: No octave prompt (no error messages)
Albert Vos vos_albert at hotmail.com writes: at home and at work I have the same problem with octave under cygwin. In both cases I octave just quits without giving any output, no prompt, no error messages. One computer runs on win2000 Sp4 on which I'm no administrator and the other runs on winXp Sp2 on which I have all rights. You might try starting octave using octave -V or octave -x (or both) to determine if it is getting hung in one of the startup scripts. Otherwise follow the problem reporting guidelines ... Tony Richardson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
