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

[Richard Campbell]

On Feb 12, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> 
> On Feb 12, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:
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>> On Feb 12, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
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>>> On Feb 12, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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
>>> 
>>> Be aware, that without ghostscript you'll not be able to print.
>>> 
>>> I don't know how to change the behavior of configure for the non-pcre regex.
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> Actually I can print to an .eps file just fine on Snow Leopard without 
>> Ghostscript, whether I'm using the 3.2.3 precompiled distribution or 3.4.0 
>> from source on this machine.
>> 
>> I just want to modify configure to change PCRE from being optional to 
>> required, so that ./configure fails if it doesn't find pcre.h instead of 
>> just building anyway. Not trying to fix the specific regex problem. 
>> 
>> Campbell
> 
> 3.2.3 won't have a problem. However, for 3.2, if you print to any device 
> format other than eps, ghostscript is required.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 

Huh, no kidding. I hadn't tried that in a while. I guess I got used to printing 
to EPS and then saving it as whatever other format I wanted in other 
applications.

The error could be a bit more informative, though. It doesn't even say 
'warning' or 'error':

octave:25> print('-dpng','temp.png')
sh: -dQUIET: command not found

Campbell