Re: Unreliable OSX Builds

[Thomas Treichl]

Joel LeBlanc schrieb:
> I have been building (or trying to build) octave on OSX for some time 
> now.  It didn't work, then I fixed a few things and it did for a couple 
> of weeks, now it won't build again.  Surely I am doing something wrong. 
>  I can't understand how the build process can be so fragile.  There also 
> don't seem to be clear instructions on how to build, and from what I've 
> read in the archives its far from autogen->configure->make.
>
> Is there a reliable way to get things built?  Do any of the developers 
> work on OSX, or is there a procedure that SHOULD result in a successful 
> build?  How do I get to the current stable code (I'm assuming the HEAD 
> is the "testing/devepment" code).
>
> I apologize in advance for my ignorance,
>
> ~Joel

Hi Joel,

I would say that we currently have some problems to compile the current Octave 
sources on MacOSX - work is currently done too to fix them. BTW, we are always 
interested in, like you say "I fixed a few things", what you fixed exactly. The 
number of people compiling Octave for themselves on MacOSX is small and maybe we 
do the same thing - so it might be an idea of proposing a patch to fix things 
for all Macs?

Best regards,

  Thomas