Re: compiling development sources on mac

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 19, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:19:08PM -0500, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> On Dec 19, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Rob Mahurin wrote:
>>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:57:12AM -0500, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>>>>> I use Fink for my dependencies. Fink uses gcc 4.4.2 when it
>>>>>> can. Since FLKT does not build with non-Apple compilers on Mac OSX,
>>>>>> Fink uses gcc 4.2.1 for FLTK. Mixing gcc 4.4.2 and 4.4.1 appears to
>>>>>> be a problem for me since libtool was added (I get a bus-error when
>>>>>> I try to run octave).
>>>>> 
>>>>> I was seeing the same thing (trouble linking with the MacPorts fltk)
>>>>> but I was able to install fltk from source, built with the MacPorts
>>>>> compilers, and link it with octave-3.2.3.
>>>> 
>>>> If you're able to produce a working binary, please let me know which
>>>> gcc you use for FLTK? ... and what compiler are you use for the
>>>> fortran dependencies.
>>> 
>>> I configured fltk-1.1.9 with the command
>>> 
>>>     ./configure CC=gcc-mp-4.3 CXX=g++-mp-4.3
>> 
>> Does the build produce a quartz or x11 result?
> 
> Clicking the window created by a plot changes the OSX menu bar to read
> "octave", rather than "x11", so I guess it is quartz.
> 
>>> and make sure that /usr/local/bin/fltk-config showed up in my path
>>> before the macports /opt/local/bin/fltk-config.  Then I was able to
>>> build octave-3.2.3 with
>>> 
>>>     ./configure CC=gcc-mp-4.3 CXX=g++-mp-4.3 F77=gfortran-mp-4.3 
>>> LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib LIBS=-lmetis
>>> 
>>> and successfully use backend("fltk") from within the binary.
>> 
>> I'm also able to build and run 3.2.3. It is the developer's sources
>> (which uses libtool) that are giving trouble :-(
>> 
>> With 3.2.3, I'm able to use FLTK-aqua/quartz. I haven't tried x11 yet.
> 
> We're at the same spot, then.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rob

Quick update, I've removed references to FLTK when configuring. The result is 
that ./configure ends with ...

configure:43807: WARNING: "FLTK config script not found.  Native graphics will 
be disabled."
configure:43823: WARNING:
configure:43825: WARNING: I didn't find the necessary libraries to compile 
native
configure:43827: WARNING: graphics. It isn't necessary to have native graphics
configure:43829: WARNING: but you will have to use gnuplot or you won't be able
configure:43831: WARNING: to use any of Octave's plotting commands

... unfortunately, Octave still does not run for me on Mac OS 10.6.2

../../run-octave -f -q -H -p . --eval "geometryimages ('voronoi', 'txt');"
make[3]: *** [voronoi.txt] Bus error
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Looking at the dynamic libs being linked to there remain conflicts with 
libiconv, libfontconfig, and libfreetype (maybe others). I'll start chasing 
these tomorrow.

Ben