Octave-devel 3.6.3 missing freqz

[michaelbartz@…]

I installed octave-devel 3.6.3 and it appears to be missing freqz, which is a core octave function.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Please remember to Cc the maintainer.

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Should be located at ${prefix}/share/octave/3.6.3/m/signal/freqz.m ; typical ${prefix} is /opt/local . Mine is located there, and it seems to work as expected. Do you find that file?

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

On Nov 29, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Michael Bartz <michaelbartz@…> wrote via email:

Yes,  I did a re-install from scratch and "freqz" is in the "signal" subdirectory.  

A follow on question, though.  Is this signal subdirectory just a "base" or is it supposed to be the current signal package?  If it is the current signal package it is missing many functions.  What lead me to this was that I was trying to install the REMEZ function and installed signal-1.2.0 directly from the octave console.  That's when I started having problems.

So, I interpret that: (1) you hand-installed the signal-1.2.0 package from inside Octave, which resulted in the FREQZ function disappearing; and (2) reinstalling octave-devel restored the FREQZ function correctly. Hence, this really is not the issue of octave-devel. Hence, I'm closing this ticket; we can continue discussing on the email list if/as you want.

I really know very little about octave packages. So, maybe what octave provides is sort of "base" and you're supposed to install a signal package to get "full". Or, maybe that package is out of date with respect to what the current octave release provides. As I use Octave for just simple things, without adding in packages of any type, and I never have, I'm really not qualified to answer the question. Sorry.