Re: Configuring the latest default hg on OSX

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 1, 2008, at 6:20 AM, c. wrote:

> Ben,
>
> On 01/lug/08, at 01:40, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> > Just a quick note ...
> >
> > I tried a simple plot using the fltk backend on OSX 10.5.4 using  
> > fltk-aqua (v 1.1.7).
>
> I think fltk-aqua 1.1.7 is VERY buggy, I just compiled 1.1.9 and  
> everything
> works much better.

I agree, that was my experieince as well..

> > A graph window showed up but is was unresponsive (as was Octave  
> > after that). There as some mention of "ca nan" or such. I tried  
> > ctrl-C and was rewarded with a seg-fault.
> >
> > I'm guessing that fltk must be newer than 1.1.7 or the Fink's aqua  
> > version is not completely functional.
> >
> > I've contacted the maintainer of fltk-aqua for the Fink package  
> > manager. When time permits, he'll update fltk to a more recent  
> > version.
>
> I see no reason why Fink should stay stuck at 1.1.7 as the stable  
> release is 1.1.9 and
> has been out for quite a while.
> Unfortunalely I am not expert in the debian/fink package format, but
> in case this is of help to the fink team, compilation of 1.1.9 was  
> extremely easy:

I contacted the Fink's maintainer for flkt-aqua. Alexander Hansen is  
working on updating Fink's version

> LDFLAGS="-L/sw/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/sw/include" DSOFLAGS="-L/sw/lib" ./ 
> configure --prefix=/opt/fltk/1.1.9  --enable-threads --enable-shared  
> --enable-largefile --enable-quartz
> make
> make install
>
> all tests work fine except those that are expected to fail.
> I would be glad to give further help if needed but I think in that  
> case we should move
> the discussion to some fink mailing list
>
> > Ben
>
> c.