Re: GNU Octave 3.4.0 Released (Mac OSX?)

[Michael D Godfrey]

On 02/10/2011 07:07 PM, Vic Norton wrote:

It's hopeless, Ben. I tried

   export CFLAGS="-m32"
   export FFLAGS="-m32 -ff2c"
   export CPPFLAGS="-m32 -D_REENTRANT"
   export LDFLAGS="-m32"
   ./configure --disable-readline --disable-docs
   make

At least I didn't get

   configure: error: A BLAS library was detected but found
   incompatible with your Fortran 77 compiler settings.

from the configure step, but make produced

   grep: /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory
   /usr/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory
   libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libiconv.la' is not a valid libtool archive
   make[3]: *** [liboctinterp.la] Error 1
   make[2]: *** [check] Error 2
   make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
   make: *** [check] Error 2

There is certainly nothing that looks like 'libiconv.la' in /usr/lib/.

I guess I'll stick with Octave 3.2.3 for the next few years, until some guru compiles a Mac binary of a more recent version.

Thanks for your help!

Regards,

Vic

Unless you want to do a lot of work, this is correct.  But, I hope that it will
not be years.  What you need is a complete octave.dmg ready to download
and click to install.   I have  3.4.0 running on my MacBook Pro, but you
do not want to know what it took to get it more or less fully functional.
For doing real work with Octave from my MacBook I use NX to connect
to a Linux machine.  I would probably still do that if I had a complete
install on the Mac.  This is not the best choice for everyone so I do hope
that someone with Mac packaging skills will build the .dmg.

Best,
Michael