Re: Can't install octave-forge packages in a 32-bit OS X build, but can in a 64-bit one

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 6, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

> On 11/5/11 5:08 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 5, 2011, at 4:57 PM, c. wrote:
>> 
>>> On 5 Nov 2011, at 21:54, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>> 
>>>> That might be worth a shot, though on 10.6 fink's flex-devel and the
>>>> system's /usr/bin/flex are at the same version, so that leaves the
>>>> ancient 2.5.4a from our "flex" package.
>>> 
>>> No, they aren't, although the version number is the same, the version 
>>> shiped with the system has been patched by apple.
>>> c.
>> 
>> Now that you mention that, I also remember we encountered that before. 
>> Looking through the mail-list, I think the offending patch was the one below.
>> 
>>      
>> http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/flex/flex-24.1/patches/scanEOF.diff
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> In any case, I played around with different the available flex options
> (fink's flex, flex-devel [which normally has to be explicitly used
> because it's out of the PATH], or the system's flex) with no change in
> the results.
> 
> Alex


I reviewed some old emails.  I expect problems if autogen.sh is run using 
Apple's version. When building the docs, I had encountered errors and warning 
such as ...

        warning: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 92, column 2

        error: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 164, column 2

In any event, I updated by Fink packages, and am still able to build octave 
using my build script. Over the next few days I'll try modifying my script to 
reflect the differences in Fink's info file.

Ben