Re: Mac OS X build reference?

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 19, 2011, at 2:00 PM, fork wrote:

> fork <forkandwait <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I am going to give building the latest
>> on my Macbook, Snow Leopard.
> 
> Success, at least for 32 bit!  Here is what I did:
> 
> Downloaded and installed xcode (I couldn't figure out how to build Blas/ 
> Atlas/
> Lapack and friends...)
> 
> Built and installed the newest stable gcc with --prefix=/usr/local 
> 
> Ditto for gnuplot
> 
> Ditto for other dependencies (sed, pcre, readline, make, etc).  When in doubt
> (like with make) I installed it.
> 
> Set the flags from Campbell's Readme:
> 
> export CFLAGS="-m32"
> export FFLAGS="$CFLAGS -ff2c"
> export CPPFLAGS="$CFLAGS -D_REENTRANT -D__LISTS__"
> export LDFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
> export FC=/usr/local/bin/gfortran
> 
> Reset the path to hit /usr/local/bin first (for our new gcc):
> export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin
> 
> Then ran configure with a bunch of stuff disabled (from looking at the logs 
> for
> the bus error with a more indiscriminant build, but not systematically):
> ./configure --disable-docs --without-framework-carbon \
>      --without-x --disable-64 --without-opengl --without-framework-opengl
> 
> make && make install
> 
> I ran make check as well, but there was a single error I don't remember what.
> 
> I have successfully run eig() and plotted from the command line, and printed a
> simple color eps file.  I get warnings about ghostscript, but it seems to work
> OK anyway

The ghostscript warning could be more clear. Without ghostscirpt, the only 
format you can print if eps.

Ben