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bug #41251: gsed not included in OSX installer binary

Submitted by:  John Swensen <jpswensen>
Submitted on:  Thu 16 Jan 2014 03:34:29 PM UTC  
 
Category: Configuration and Build SystemSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Incorrect Result
Status: InvalidAssigned to: Carlo de Falco <cdf>
Originator Name: jpswensenOpen/Closed: Closed
Release: 3.8.0Operating System: Mac OS

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Fri 24 Jan 2014 02:34:10 PM UTC, comment #3:

OK no worries.
I am closing this bug as invalid.
c.

Carlo de Falco <cdf>
Project MemberIn charge of this item.
Fri 24 Jan 2014 02:30:37 PM UTC, comment #2:

Now I fell like an idiot. I had an old Octave.app lying around in /Applications from before the split to Octave-gui.app and Octave-cli.app. I was trying to run the mkoctfile from inside this old .app bundle to compile an oct file and it was complaining about not finding gsed in this .app bundle.

Upon reading Carlo's comment and going back and reading the README in the DMG (RTFM right?) I now see that the .mpkg installer install to /usr/local/octave/3.8.0 and that the Octave-gui.app and Ocatve-cli.app are just launchers.

Sorry for the noise, as this was purely noise from me being silly.

John Swensen <jpswensen>
Fri 24 Jan 2014 09:31:50 AM UTC, comment #1:

I just tried installing again and then did

so gsed does appear to be in the distribution,
could you please check on your machine whith the same
command as above?

which version of the installer did you uuse?
is it version 6 currently on Octave Forge?

Did you change any default install options?

Carlo de Falco <cdf>
Project MemberIn charge of this item.
Thu 16 Jan 2014 03:34:29 PM UTC, original submission:

I was trying to build an Oct file using the mkoctfile script inside the .app bundle from the OctaveForge website. It complained about not being able to find gsed. I know from my own experience building on OSX that the default sed doesn't play nice with the Octave build process and I usually use the macports or fink gsed instead.

I then installed a recent version of gsed in /opt/local and then made a symbolic link for gsed in the /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin directory and then mkoctfile worked fine.

I guess I was expecting that since the .app bundle contains all the other possible dependencies included that the gsed binary would have been included also so that mkoctfile could be used out-of-the-box from within the .app bundle. I expect this was accidental, but thought I would make a bug report anyway.

John Swensen <jpswensen>

 

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