Re: Mac OS X: can anyone install octave or octave-forge?

[Per Persson]

Hi,
Octave does run under Mac OS X (including 10.1, but not tested on 
10.1.1). If you want to install it "by hand" there are instructions at 
http://homepage.mac.com/persquare

Make sure that you enable dynamic linking as described if you want to 
use octave-forge. Not all parts of octave-forge work though. If you get 
an error making a package, just disable it by placing a file named 
NOINSTALL in that directory.

Otherwise you might want to use fink (an automated package manager for 
OSX) to install it. Fink has octave 2.1.35 and an option to install and 
link against ATLAS too, and it enables dynamic loading by default.

See fink.sourceforge.net for more info. (Octave is in the unstable 
branch, check the FAQ and the mailing lists for more info.)

FYI, the problem on OS X (and Darwin) lies with C++ templates which 
octave makes heavy use of. Apples linker is a moving target at present, 
but improves with time. Good news is that the kludgy patch needed for 
OSX 10.4 is unneccessary in 10.1 but a few other bugs has to be worked 
around. See Ben Singers page http://homepage.mac.com/bsinger/octave/ for 
more info on that.

**** All bugs are reported to Apple and will be fixed "upstream", my 
prediction is that we'll have a clean octave install "real soon 
now" ;-) ****

BTW, there is a bug in OS X's tempnam() which I'm trying to iron out in 
octave. For some reason it doesn't help to undefine HAVE_TEMPNAM but 
I'll get back to you on that one.

Cheers,
Per

PS. Fink also has an early preview of a Cocoa-native gnuplot terminal 
that saves you from installing XFree86 unless you need it for other 
reasons. (See http://aquaterm.sourceforge.net for more info on that and 
some screenshots)

PPS. The above was a shameless plug for an app written by me;-)



On torsdag, november 15, 2001, at 05:25 , Victor Eijkhout wrote:

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