Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot

[Richard Campbell]

On Feb 12, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:
> 
>> I am reformatting a laptop right now so that I can start fresh. We've 
>> identified the following dependencies which we believe need to be satisfied, 
>> and I'm going to test each of these assumptions.
>> 
>> - Xcode (provides gcc which supports OSX-style universal binary executables 
>> and libraries)
>> - gfortran (from AT&T, same capabilities as above)
>> - GNU sed, installed to --prefix/usr which overwrites the Apple/BSD/whatever 
>> sed was already there
>> - pcre, simply because the version provided with OSX doesn't provide pcre.h, 
>> because one particular regex wasn't found, but I think this may have been 
>> fixed
>> - flex?
>> - postscript?
>> 
>> Campbell
> 
> By "postscript", do you mean "ghostscript"?
> 
> Also, I recommend you include "gnuplot".
> 
> Ben
> 
> 

Thanks, yes, gnuplot should be on the list. Neither ghostscript nor postscript 
should be on the list, actually - they weren't required before.

Regarding PCRE: the offending regex is still present, and ./configure still 
doesn't require PCRE (it allows you to build, and the error you get is when you 
try to print something, and it's a completely non-descriptive error). What 
would I need to do to submit a patch changing the behaviour of configure?

Campbell