Octave 3.3.54+  build on Mac OS X 10.6.6  Dec 30 2010

1. There was considerable trouble finding a working
    Fortran.  This, it turned out, was mainly due to the
    fact that nothing worked reliably with -O2.  After
    switching to -O0  it appears that most compiler choices
    work, but not all have been retested.  The current one
    is:  GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646).
    There are recent reports that better fortrans can be
    made to work.  This should be tried.

2. There was a problem when building with /usr/local/bin
    ahead of /usr/bin.  I got a build to complete OK by
    putting /usr/local/bin after /usr/bin.  This proved
    that some executables existed in both directories and
    the one in /usr/local/bin was wrong.  The were a number
    of candidates since I had first build the programs that
    installed in /usr/local/bin in 2007.  These were
    either deleted or replace with up-to-date versions.

3. All installation and updating was done from one of three
    sources:
    http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1062/
    http://www.gnu.org/software
    or from the "home" of the package.  In all cases the packages
    were installed into /usr/local

   I did not make any use of Fink or MacPorts. 

packages mainly from <http://gnu.org/software/

autoconf-2.68.tar.gz
autogen-5.11.1.tar.bz2
gnuplot-4.4.0.tar.gz
libtool-2.4.tar.gz
m4-1.4.15.tar.gz
patch.tar.Z
pcre-8.02.tar.gz
glpk-4.41.tar.gz
flex-2.5.35.tar.gz
fltk-1.1.10-source.tar.gz
fontconfig-2.8.0.tar.gz
freetype-2.3.9.tar.gz
git-4.41.tar.gz
MacTeX-2009.mpkg.zip   (from TeX source)
pcre-8.00.tar.gz
pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz
sed-4.2.1-0.dmg
tcltk-8.5.5-x11.dmg
coreutils-8.5-0.dmg

Current versions:
autoconf  2.68
autogen   5.10.2
automake  1.11.1
m4        1.4.15
libtool   2.2.6b
lapack    3.3.0
mercurial 1.6.2+20100802
patch     2.5.8

coreutils-8.5-0.dmg

The Sparse matrix code was compiled from the source downloaded from
Suitesparse at Florida.

All of the above packages ending in tar.gz installed without
problems using the standard ./configure;make;make install
sequence.

The build commands were:
./autogen.sh; ./configure F77="gfortran -ff2c -O0" CFLAGS=-O2 CXXFLAGS=-O1 --enable-docs=no  --without-qrupdate; make

Summary of config.log:
Octave is now configured for i386-apple-darwin10.5.0

  Source directory:            .
  Installation prefix:         /usr/local
  C compiler:                  gcc  -mieee-fp  -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wformat -O2 -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread
  C++ compiler:                g++  -mieee-fp -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include    -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -O1
  Fortran compiler:            gfortran -ff2c -O0 -O
  Fortran libraries:            -L/usr/lib/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/../../../i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/../../.. -lm -lgfortranbegin -lgfortran
  Lex libraries:
  LIBS:                        -lm

  AMD CPPFLAGS:
  AMD LDFLAGS:
  AMD libraries:               -lamd
  ARPACK libraries:
  BLAS libraries:              -framework vecLib
  CAMD CPPFLAGS:
  CAMD LDFLAGS:
  CAMD libraries:              -lcamd
  CARBON libraries:            -Wl,-framework -Wl,Carbon
  CCOLAMD CPPFLAGS:
  CCOLAMD LDFLAGS:
  CCOLAMD libraries:           -lccolamd
  CHOLMOD CPPFLAGS:
  CHOLMOD LDFLAGS:
  CHOLMOD libraries:           -lcholmod
  COLAMD CPPFLAGS:
  COLAMD LDFLAGS:
  COLAMD libraries:            -lcolamd
  CURL CPPFLAGS:
  CURL LDFLAGS:
  CURL libraries:              -lcurl
  CXSPARSE CPPFLAGS:
  CXSPARSE LDFLAGS:
  CXSPARSE libraries:          -lcxsparse
  DL libraries:                -ldl
  FFTW3 CPPFLAGS:
  FFTW3 LDFLAGS:
  FFTW3 libraries:             -lfftw3
  FFTW3F CPPFLAGS:
  FFTW3F LDFLAGS:
  FFTW3F libraries:
  fontconfig CFLAGS:           -I/usr/local/include
  fontconfig LIBS:             -L/usr/local/lib -lfontconfig
  FT2_CFLAGS:                  -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include
  FT2_LIBS:                    -L/usr/local/lib -lfreetype -lz
  GLPK CPPFLAGS:
  GLPK LDFLAGS:
  GLPK libraries:              -lglpk
  graphics CFLAGS:             -I/usr/local/include -arch i386
  graphics LIBS:               -L/usr/local/lib -arch i386 -lfltk_gl -framework AGL -framework OpenGL -lfltk -framework Carbon -framework ApplicationServices
  Magick++ CPPFLAGS:
  Magick++ LDFLAGS:
  Magick++ libraries:
  HDF5 CPPFLAGS:
  HDF5 LDFLAGS:
  HDF5 libraries:
  LAPACK libraries:
  OPENGL libraries:            -L/usr/local/lib -lfontconfig   -Wl,-framework -Wl,OpenGL
  PTHREAD flags:               -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread
  PTHREAD libraries:
  QHULL CPPFLAGS:
  QHULL LDFLAGS:
  QHULL libraries:             -lqhull
  QRUPDATE libraries:
  READLINE libraries:          -lreadline
  REGEX libraries:             -L/usr/local/lib -lpcre
  TERM libraries:              -lncurses
  UMFPACK libraries:           -lumfpack
  X11 include flags:
  X11 libraries:               -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11
  Z CPPFLAGS:
  Z LDFLAGS:
  Z libraries:                 -lz

  Default pager:               less
  gnuplot:                     gnuplot

  Do internal array bounds checking:  false
  Build static libraries:             false
  Build shared libraries:             true
  Dynamic Linking:                    true (dlopen)
  Include support for GNU readline:   true
  64-bit array dims and indexing:     false

configure:55401: WARNING: qrupdate not found.  The QR & Cholesky updating functions will be slow.
configure:55437: WARNING: ARPACK not found.  The eigs function will be disabled.
configure:55461: WARNING: GraphicsMagick++ library not found.  The imread function for reading image files will not be fully functional.
configure:55467: WARNING: HDF5 library not found.  Octave will not be able to save or load HDF5 data files.
configure:55515: WARNING: building documentation disabled; make dist will fail
configure:55675:
configure:55677: NOTE: libraries may be skipped if a library is not found OR
configure:55679: NOTE: if the library on your system is missing required features.
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make check produced:
Summary:

  PASS   6486
  FAIL      2
The 2 failures were src/mappers.cc and scripts/help/doc.m
due to   ***** assert(arg (single(-1)), single(pi)); (I think this has been fixed)
and doc.m failed due to no documentation was generated.
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