Re: Installing Matrix.h with octave-2.9.7 (Mac OS X issue)

[Joe Koski]

on 8/22/06 11:04 AM, John W. Eaton at address@hidden wrote:

> On 22-Aug-2006, Joe Koski wrote:
> 
> | One last point on the building of octave-2.9.7 on my Mac G5 with OS X
> | 10.4.7. In order to build octave-forge, I have been manually copying
> | Matrix.h into /usr/local/include/octave-2.9.7/octave/. During the
> | octave-2.9.7 "make install" there is a warning message that the installer
> | can't find matrix.h, which was renamed to get around a problem with the OS X
> | file system case insensitivity. During "make" octave-forge complains about
> | missing Matrix.h. Copying Matrix.h into /usr/local/include... solves the
> | problem. The octave "make install" should probably be updated to solve this
> | Mac specific problem.
> 
> I've removed matrix.h from the distributed files and also from the
> list of INCLUDES in src/Makefile.in.  Thanks for reminding me.
> 
> Since matrix.h only included mex.h, there is no significant loss of
> functionality here, though some people may want to be able to compile
> code written for Matlab that includes matrix.h.  I suppose they can
> just change the matrix.h line to be mex.h instead.
> 
> jwe

John,

You may be missing my point. Even with a NOINSTALL in the octave-forge
extra/mex folder, octave-forge looks for Matrix.h during the "make" process.
Maybe it is needed for something other than mex?

Joe