octave, octave-devel: 'test strread' fails

[lord@…]

My Octave script fails on 'textscan' call which I traced down to:

octave:1>  test strread
warning: division by zero
  ***** test
 [a, b] = strread ("1 2", "%f%f");
 assert (a, 1);
 assert (b, 2);
!!!!! test failed
element number 1 undefined in return list
octave:2>

Version:

octave @3.6.4_10 (math, science)
Variants:             accelerate, [+]atlas, docs, fltk, g95, gcc43, gcc44,
                      gcc45, gcc46, gcc47, [+]gcc48, gcc49, metis, x11

[lord@…]

Cc Me!

[lord@…]

Same problem with 'octave @3.6.4_10+atlas+gcc48' port

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Your test command works for me on 10.9. What do the following return for you:

uname -a
xcodebuild -version
env
port installed | grep active

[lord@…]

prosody /Users/lord> uname -a
Darwin prosody.local 13.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
prosody /Users/lord> xcodebuild -version
Xcode 5.0.2
Build version 5A3005
prosody /Users/lord>
prosody /Users/lord> env
PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Applications/MATLAB_R2011b.app/bin:/usr/local/cuda/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/Users/lord/tmp/fwb/bin:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home/bin:/Users/lord/java/android-ndk-r8e:/Users/lord/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin/X11:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/usr/local/bin
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port installed | grep activeprosody /Users/lord> port installed | grep active
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[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Thanks! Let me play around with some ideas and I'll post back when one of them merits it. I've got a busy weekend, so it probably won't be until early next week.

[lord@…]

Let me know if you want me to try something, like reinstalling with different options.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

"octave @3.6.4_10+atlas+gcc48" is what I use, and other variants should not change this result. If you want to just reinstall, that's worth a try:

sudo port -f uninstall octave @3.6.4_10+atlas+gcc48
sudo port -k install octave +atlas +gcc48

the '-k' will keep the build directory for now. Then, do:

(cd `port work octave` && sudo chmod -R a+rw . && cd octave-3.6.4 && make check)

and this will check a lot of how octave functions. On my 10.8 box I get back:

Summary:

  PASS  10203
  FAIL      2

There were 2 expected failures (see fntests.log for details).

Expected failures are known bugs.  Please help improve Octave
by contributing fixes for them.

There were 7 skipped tests (see fntests.log for details).
Skipped tests are features that are disabled in this version of Octave
because the needed libraries were not present when Octave was built.

243 (of 803) .m files have no tests.

36 (of 157) .cc files have no tests.

which is as good as one can expect. I'm building on 10.9 right now, and will do this same test once that finishes.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Another wondering: Does -anything- work with your installed octave? The "make check" I posted above might answer that question, but I'm also curious about once octave is installed and active, if it does anything or does it generally fail?

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

On 10.9 using +gcc48 +atlas:

  src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/dlmread.cc ........................... PASS   12/20   FAIL 8
  src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/eigs.cc .............................. PASS  148/149  FAIL 1
  src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/str2double.cc ........................ PASS   24/27   FAIL 3
  src/sparse-xpow.cc ..................................... PASS    1/2    FAIL 1
  scripts/specfun/realpow.m .............................. PASS    4/5    FAIL 1
  test_io.m .............................................. PASS   72/75   FAIL 3

Summary:

  PASS  10188
  FAIL     17

On 10.8, the actual failures are:

  src/data.cc ............................................ PASS  804/805  FAIL 1
  scripts/polynomial/roots.m ............................. PASS    9/10   FAIL 1

So ... not sure what to make of this difference. Interesting though. I'm wondering what your system returns when doing "make check" ...

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Can you try the following and attach the results; it might shed some light ...

DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES=1 octave --eval "test strread"

[lord@…]

bash-3.2$ DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES=1 octave --eval "test strread"
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GNU Octave, version 3.6.4
Copyright (C) 2013 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0".

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warning: division by zero
  ***** test
 [a, b] = strread ("1 2", "%f%f");
 assert (a, 1);
 assert (b, 2);
!!!!! test failed
element number 1 undefined in return list
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[lord@…]

prosody /Users/lord> (cd `port work octave` && sudo chmod -R a+rw . && cd octave-3.6.4 && make check)
Makefile:2549: warning: overriding commands for target `check'
Makefile:2128: warning: ignoring old commands for target `check'
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-recursive
Makefile:2549: warning: overriding commands for target `check'
Makefile:2128: warning: ignoring old commands for target `check'
Making all in libgnu
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-recursive
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
Making all in libcruft
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Making all in liboctave
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-am
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
Making all in src
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-am
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
Making all in scripts
making plot/gnuplot_binary.m from plot/gnuplot_binary.in
plot/gnuplot_binary.m is unchanged
Making all in examples
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Making all in test
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Makefile:2549: warning: overriding commands for target `check'
Makefile:2128: warning: ignoring old commands for target `check'
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C doc/interpreter ../../AUTHORS
make[3]: `../../AUTHORS' is up to date.
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C doc/interpreter ../../BUGS
make[3]: `../../BUGS' is up to date.
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C doc/interpreter ../../INSTALL.OCTAVE
make[3]: `../../INSTALL.OCTAVE' is up to date.

Octave successfully built.  Now choose from the following:

   ./run-octave    - to run in place to test before installing
   make check      - to run the tests
   make install    - to install (PREFIX=/opt/local)

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C test check
./build_sparse_tests.sh
./build_bc_overload_tests.sh ./bc_overloads_expected
../run-octave --norc --silent --no-history ./fntests.m .

Integrated test scripts:

regexp: internal error calling pcre_exec; error code from pcre_exec is -14
prosody /Users/lord>

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Can you do the following:

sudo port clean octave
sudo port -d configure octave +gcc48 +atlas > ~/Desktop/octave_conf_out.txt 2>&1
cp `port work octave`/octave-3.6.4/config.log ~/Desktop/octave_conf_log.txt
cd ~/Desktop
tar jcf octave_conf_out.tar.bz2 octave_conf_out.txt octave_conf_log.txt

and then post the resulting tarball here?

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Thanks. The primary differences between your MacPorts setup and mine are:

• You have software installed into /usr/local and /Library -- this might make a difference but it might not too; the DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES does not show that any of this was picked up, so I'm guessing it probably has no impact.

• I'm using MacPorts from SVN trunk, which has changes specific to using 10.9's clang++ and libc++ as well as the compiler_blacklist_versions PortGroup; these are not showing up in your log files. I'm not sure if doing:

  sudo port selfupdate
  

  will help here, but it's worth a try. So, please just do that now.

• I always recommend keeping the compiler variant the same across all ports; the changes I would recommend on your install are moving to using:

  atlas +gcc48
  fftw-3 +gcc48
  fftw-3-single +gcc48
  SuiteSparse +atlas
  

  I, again, am not sure any of the above changes will help; but, keeping the compiler consistent is generally a good thing.

Once the above changes are in place, your setup will be about the same as mine. You'll need to uninstall octave then reinstall it and test it to see if it works. If not, then we've eliminated some possible points of issue and I'll come up with some new things to try. Maybe changing some of the above will fix the issue.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

BTW> I check tickets when someone posts text to them with much greater probability than when someone just posts a file -- so, sorry for the long delay.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Any luck trying to implement any of the difference issues I came up with?

[lord@…]

I've done another port selfupdate followed by upgrade outdated and installed the following ports you suggested:

atlas +gcc48
fftw-3 +gcc48
fftw-3-single +gcc48
SuiteSparse +atlas

I am not very familial how port 'variants' work. Do I need to uninstall others? How do I rebuild octave to use new variants? It would be helpful if you give me some sample commands to execute.

Right now, after installing these ports, 'test strread' in Octave still gives errors.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

OK. After changing the installed ports, you'll want to remove octave and reinstall it:

sudo port -f uninstall octave
sudo port install octave +gcc48 +atlas

Assuming that works, hopefully your issue will be taken care of. If not, we'll try something else.

[lord@…]

Michael. Thanks for your help. I did as advised and still getting 'test strread' errors as described above.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Does

(cd `port work octave` && sudo chmod -R a+rw . && cd octave-3.6.4 && make check)

still fail in the same (basic) way?

[lord@…]

make check fails to compile:

ibtool: compile:  /usr/bin/clang -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../libgnu -I../libgnu -I../libcruft/misc -pipe -Os -arch x86_64 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wformat -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -pipe -Os -arch x86_64 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread -pipe -Os -arch x86_64 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread -c oct-rl-edit.c  -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/liboctave_la-oct-rl-edit.o
oct-rl-edit.c:99:3: error: use of undeclared identifier 'rl_voidfunc_t'
  rl_voidfunc_t *saved_redisplay_function = rl_redisplay_function;
  ^
oct-rl-edit.c:99:18: error: use of undeclared identifier
      'saved_redisplay_function'; did you mean 'rl_redisplay_function'?
  rl_voidfunc_t *saved_redisplay_function = rl_redisplay_function;
                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                 rl_redisplay_function

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

What does "which octave" return for you?

Also, can you do the following:

cp `port logfile octave` ~/Desktop/mp-octave-log.txt
bzip2 ~/Desktop/mp-octave-log.txt

and attach the compressed log file to this ticket?

[lord@…]

/opt/local/bin/octave Attaching log

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

OK; thanks. Can you do the following:

sudo port -f uninstall octave
sudo port -k install octave +gcc48 +atlas
cp `port logfile octave` ~/Desktop/mp-octave-log.txt
bzip2 ~/Desktop/mp-octave-log.txt

and post the compressed log file to this ticket. Doesn't matter if the install command errors out.

[lord@…]

building failed. log attached. Thanks!

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

My bad; try this instead:

sudo port -f uninstall octave
sudo port clean all
sudo port selfupdate
sudo port -k install octave +gcc48 +atlas
cp `port logfile octave` ~/Desktop/mp-octave-log.txt
bzip2 ~/Desktop/mp-octave-log.txt

[lord@…]

new log file attached.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

OK; that built. Can you run octave at all (does octave execute when you issue that command)? If octave does run, does the "test strread" still fail?

Also, do:

(cd `port work octave` && sudo chmod -R a+rw . && cd octave-3.6.4 && make check) > ~/Desktop/octave-make-check.txt 2>&1
bzip2 ~/Desktop/octave-make-check.txt

and then attach the compressed file.

I hope this isn't just deja vu all over again!

[lord@…]

'test strread' still fails. Log is attached.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Interesting. Can you try the following next:

sudo port install findutils
(cd `port work octave` && sudo chmod -R a+rw . && cd octave-3.6.4 && make check) > ~/Desktop/octave-make-check.txt 2>&1
bzip2 ~/Desktop/octave-make-check.txt

and then post the new log? Maybe this will help ...

[lord@…]

Please see attached.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

OK, finally. After re-re-re-reviewing some of the attachments here, it looks like you have stuff installed into /usr/local ... stuff like fortran and pcre, which are critical to how Octave functions. MacPorts can sometimes ignore such stuff, but it's really hard to do it all of the time; and, MacPorts does not control that install area (by default, and in your case too; if uses /opt/local). So ... if that stuff duplicates what MacPorts provides, I'd recommend going with MacPorts as the single-point solution for stuff. If you really, really, REALLY need the stuff in /usr/local, then I'll look into working around it in the Octave configure script ... but, that's just for Octave; I cannot guarantee that any change I find will work with other ports. You're much better off just doing "sudo rm -rf /use/local" if you can get away with that.

My suggestion as a temporary test:

cd /usr
sudo mv local local_old
sudo mkdir local

and then see if your non-MacPorts stuff still works as you want. If you find that everything works OK, then you can "sudo rm -rf /usr/local_old" and free up that space. If you find you have to have any/all of that stuff, then you can always move the directory back -- and, in this case I'm not sure how well you'll be able to use MacPorts since, no matter how hard we try, sometimes non-MacPorts sneaks in.

When you get to a happy point with the stuff in /usr/local, you'll want to totally reinstall MacPorts ... you might just want to follow the "Reinstall Ports" section of the ​migrating guide since that's what you need to do.

[lord@…]

Michael, thanks for your investigation. I install in /usr/local only packages which are not available via macports. Unfortunately, I need some of them and I could not delete /usr/local/ and lose them.

Do you have an idea which library or executable from /usr/local/ is causing problems with macports? I can see the two suspects:

prosody /Users/lord> ldd `which octave`| grep /usr/local
	/usr/local/lib/libgfortran.2.dylib (compatibility version 3.0.0, current version 3.0.0)
	/usr/local/lib/libpcre.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.1.0)

I do not recall installing (or ever needing fortran). It might have been installed as a part of some other package. I will try to get rid of it and see if this helps.

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Replying to lord@…:

I install in /usr/local only packages which are not available via macports. Unfortunately, I need some of them and I could not delete /usr/local/ and lose them.

You could also rename /usr/local during the duration of your MacPorts builds.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

I found just the gfortran and pcre libraries, too. You could do what @larryv suggests: whenever you do something with MacPorts, first move /use/local to /usr/local_tmp, then do the MacPorts stuff, then move /usr/local_tmp back to /usr/local. Should work well, even if it's a bit of a PITA to remember. Since you need at least some of the stuff in /usr/local, I'm not sure what other choice you have if you want both MacPorts and your /usr/local stuff playing nicely together.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Did you find a work-around for this issue? I haven't had time to look into why Octave is finding files in /usr/local ahead of /opt/local ... probably won't any time soon either!

[lord@…]

I wiped up my /usr/local and this helped.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Sorry for the long delay. By "this helped" do you mean that wiping /usr/local took care of the issue? I think it should have, but I'm just confirming.

[lord@…]

Replying to michaelld@…:

Sorry for the long delay. By "this helped" do you mean that wiping /usr/local took care of the issue? I think it should have, but I'm just confirming.

Yes, it helped. You can close the ticket now. Thanks!

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Great! Thanks for the prompt reply!