Re: Installing Octave 2.9.9 on a Mac

[Joe Koski]

on 12/20/06 12:06 PM, Matthias Brennwald at address@hidden
wrote:

> 
> On 19.12.2006, at 14:03, Matthias Brennwald wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> after the recent talk on the Octave help list about installing
>> 2.9.9 on Macs I thought I'd give it a try, too. Since it seems a
>> less-than-optimal idea to combine the HPC binary with the HMUG
>> version of Octave forge I tried the following:
>> 
>> 
>> 1. Install the HMUG version of Octave 2.9.9.
>> I downloaded the archive from http://www.hmug.org/pub/MacOS_X/BSD/
>> Applications/Math/octave/octave-2.9.9-2-osx4-ppc.tar.gz and tried
>> to install it according to the instructions at http://www.hmug.org/
>> pub/MacOS_X/BSD/Applications/Math/octave/README.octave-2.9.9-2.osx4-
>> ppc.html . That failed miserably:
>> 
>> Pizza:~/Desktop mbrennwa$ mv octave-2.9.9 /tmp
>> Pizza:~/Desktop mbrennwa$ sudo make install
>> Password:
>> Sorry, try again.
>> Password:
>> make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
>> 
>> 
>> 2. Compiling from sources.
>> I downloaded the sources from ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/
>> bleeding-edge/octave-2.9.9.tar.gz and tried to install it according
>> to the instructions in INSTALL:
>> 
>> Pizza:~/Desktop/octave-2.9.9 mbrennwa$ ./configure
>> ....lots of stuff here....
>> checking for rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout in -lreadline... no
>> configure: WARNING: I need GNU Readline 4.2 or later
>> configure: error: this is fatal unless you specify --disable-readline
>> 
>> I have readline installed from Fink.
>> 
>> 
>> Can someone help me sort this out?
>> 
>> Also, what needs to happen to make Octave 2.9 appear on Fink? Fink
>> is just way more convenient than the above...
>> 
>> 
>> Matthias
> 
> I tried again to build Octave 2.9.9 from the sources. First I
> installed the latest readline from the GNU website. With this,
> configure completed without errors, but some warnings:
> 
> configure: WARNING: UMFPACK not found.  This will result in some lack
> of functionality for sparse matrices.
> configure: WARNING: COLAMD not found. This will result in some lack
> of functionality for sparse matrices.
> configure: WARNING: CCOLAMD not found. This will result in some lack
> of functionality for sparse matrices.
> configure: WARNING: CHOLMOD not found. This will result in some lack
> of functionality for sparse matrices.
> configure: WARNING: CXSparse not found. This will result in some lack
> of functionality for sparse matrices.
> configure: WARNING: HDF5 library not found.  Octave will not be able
> to save or load HDF5 data files.
> 
> I decided to go without sparse matrix support for the moment. So I
> went on to make:
> 
> Pizza:~/Desktop/octave-2.9.9 mbrennwa$ sudo make
> ...lots of stuff here...
> ...ocal/lib -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0/3.4.4 -L/
> usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0/3.4.4/../../.. -lz -lm -
> lfrtbegin -lg2c
> ld: Undefined symbols:
> restFP
> saveFP
> /usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed
> make[2]: *** [liboctave.dylib] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [liboctave] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> 
> Now what?
> 
> 
> Matthias
> 
Matthias,

It appears that you are using OS X 10.3.9. Correct? If so you need to add
something like export LIBS=-lcc_dynamic before you configure. If I recall
correctly, the missing saveFP and restFP reside in libcc_dynamic.a that
should be located in your /usr/lib. That library has disappeared from OS X
10.4.x, but those routines now apparently reside elsewhere.

Joe