Re: Compiling octave on mac os 10.4

[Marius Schamschula]

Samir,

Having just gone through building Octave 2.1.70 with octave-forge 
2004.11.16 under 10.3.9 today, let me add that octave-forge will 
certainly be incomplete under 10.4 for a while. I currently cannot 
build GiNaC under Tiger. There is some problem with some yacc file...

Also a second note on octave-forge:

I'm building into a non-standard directory structure as part of a 
visualization project (under Mac OS X 10.3.9 for now). I feed 
octave-forge with the proper CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, however several 
components, geometry (qhull), image (jpeg, libpng), and symbolif (gmp) 
did not pick up the library paths. Thus I hand edited the Makefiles for 
those components and my compile succeeded.

On May 9, 2005, at 6:38 PM, Joe Koski wrote:

> on 5/9/05 3:29 PM, Samir Sharshar at address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just switched to mac os tiger (release 10.4) and I have a few
> > questions regarding octave compilation :
> >
> > 1. Which version of octave I need to use ?
> > 2. Is anyone successfully do the job ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Samir Sharshar
>
> You're on the leading (bleeding?) edge of octave compilation. I'm 
> running OS
> X 10.3.9, and I'm hesitating to upgrade to 10.4 (Tiger) until I'm sure 
> all
> the software that I need is available and works. Make sure that you 
> have all
> the Apple developer tools (Xcode tools) installed including gcc. 
> They're on
> the distribution DVD, but are not automatically installed with the 
> system.
>
> My suggestion would be to try octave-2.1.70 and the November 16, 2004
> octave-forge. See
>
>   http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForMac
>
> for some ideas of things to try. Build octave first, then 
> octave-forge. I
> would stay away from octave-2.9.x until a few more kinks are worked 
> out.
>
> You'll need a Fortran compiler. See
>
>   http://hpc.sourceforge.net/
>
> for g77-3.4.2. Let me know if it works properly with OS X 10.4. If all 
> else
> fails, you can see if the octave-2.1.69 with octave-forge binary from 
> the
> HPC website will install properly on your Mac.
>
> Please report. We're all going to be facing the same issues soon.
>
> Joe
>
>
>
>
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