Re: GNU Octave 3.4.0 Released (Mac OSX?)

[Vic Norton]

Thanks for the response, Michael. It's very helpful. I'm a 75 year old 
mathematician, a numerical analyst of sorts. I can get along fine with Octave 
3.2.3. I certainly don't want to continue wasting my time trying to install an 
essentially Mac-incompatible version of Octave on my iMac.

Regards,

Vic

On Feb 11, 2011, at 1:45 AM, Michael D Godfrey wrote:

> 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
>