Re: Successful 32-bit built on OSX with only sed, fftw, and gfortran added to vanilla Snow Leopard

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 28, 2011, at 8:04 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:

> On Jan 28, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 6:27 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> It says 1.10. Would this only matter if you were running autogen.sh? I'm 
>>>>>> not.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Campbell
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:23 PM, bpabbott wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 02:00 PM, Richard Campbell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The README.MacOS file needs to be updated to reflect this MUCH smaller 
>>>>>>>> list of critical dependencies (I don't think fftw is even needed, but 
>>>>>>>> Octave wouldn't be very useful to me without it.)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> - gfortran from r.research.att.com/tools
>>>>>>>> - gnu sed compiled and installed with --prefix=/usr
>>>>>>>> - fftw3 and fftw3f built as universal binaries (CFLAGS, FFLAGS, 
>>>>>>>> LDFLAGS all set to "-arch i686 -arch x86_64", configure with 
>>>>>>>> --disable-dependency-tracking)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> - octave 3.3.54:
>>>>>>>> export CFLAGS="-m32"
>>>>>>>> export FFLAGS="-m32 -ff2c"
>>>>>>>> export CPPFLAGS="-m32 -D_REENTRANT"
>>>>>>>> export LDFLAGS="-m32"
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> ./configure --disable-readline --disable-docs
>>>>>>>> make
>>>>>>>> ./run-octave
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I still get a cs-list error when I try to print:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> octave:3> print('-dpng','test.png')
>>>>>>>> warning: print.m: ghostscript not found in EXEC_PATH.
>>>>>>>> warning: print.m: Ghostscript binary is not available.
>>>>>>>> warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
>>>>>>>> warning: print.m: fig2dev binary is not available.
>>>>>>>> warning: print.m: pstoedit binary is not available.
>>>>>>>> error: invalid assignment to cs-list outside multiple assignment.
>>>>>>>> error: matrix cannot be indexed with {
>>>>>>>> error: evaluating argument list element number 3
>>>>>>>> error: called from:
>>>>>>>> error: /Users/xnk/Downloads/octave-3.3.54/scripts/plot/print.m at line 
>>>>>>>> 377, column 9
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I will attempt the 64-bit version with the wrapper described 
>>>>>>>> elsewhere, but once this cs-list problem is addressed I think this is 
>>>>>>>> ready to go in README.MacOS for 32-bit at least.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Campbell
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Richard,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I was under the impression that automake must be >= 1.11.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> What version of automake are you using? The one I have bundled is 
>>>>>>> version 1.10.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ---------------------------------------
>>>>>>> $ /usr/bin/automake --version
>>>>>>> automake (GNU automake) 1.10
>>>>>>> Written by Tom Tromey <address@hidden>
>>>>>>>  and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden>.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Copyright 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>>>>>> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is 
>>>>>>> NO
>>>>>>> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
>>>>>>> PURPOSE.
>>>>>>> ---------------------------------------
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I've cc'd John incase I have my facts wrong.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I've also attached a changeset which reflects your instructions. If it 
>>>>>>> looks good to you, I can push it.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Ben
>>>>>>> <changeset.patch>
>>>>>> 
>>>>> About your changeset: Make sure you specify that fftw3 and fftw3f have to 
>>>>> be built separately. This means an additional make clean && ./configure 
>>>>> --enable-float --disable-dependency-tracking && make && sudo make install.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Campbell
>>>> 
>>>> I'm not confident I understand what you mean.
>>>> 
>>>> Should the build process be ...
>>>> 
>>>>   export CFLAGS="-arch i686 -arch x86_64"
>>>>   export FFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
>>>>   export LDLAGS="$CFLAGS"
>>>>   ./configure --disable-dependency-tracking
>>>>   make
>>>>   sudo make install
>>>>   make clean
>>>>   ./configure --enable-float --disable-dependency-tracking
>>>>   make
>>>>   sudo make install
>>>> 
>>>> Ben
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes.
>>> 
>>> fftw builds, for some dumb reason, EITHER fftw3 or fftw3f, but only one at 
>>> a time. I assume most prepackaged versions contain both.
>>> 
>>> Campbell
>> 
>> Ok. Does the result below look ok?
>> 
>>      http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/765b15fd3b3d/README.MacOS
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> You should not have to specify F77="/usr/bin/gfortran". Other than that it 
> looks like what I did.
> 
> Again, it may actually be possible to build a minimalist octave without FFTW 
> at all. I haven't tried, because I need the functionality FFTW provides (both 
> from within Octave and for other standline C programs). I would perhaps put 
> in a note about how the instructions for building FFTW should generalize to 
> building universal binary versions of any and all dependencies which Octave 
> wants to incorporate.
> 
> Campbell

I added the F77 after doing a test build myself. In my case, g77 was found that 
configure failed.

Ben