Re: Mac OS X build reference?

[Richard Campbell]

On Feb 19, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> 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
> 
> 

Which is really not a problem on OSX, which can convert eps to anything - and 
the results of rasterizing the eps in Preview, for example, are usually much 
better-looking than if you printed directly to png from Octave. But yeah, 
someone should submit a patch to make the warning clearer.

Campbell