Re: Mac OS X build reference?

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 19, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:

> 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


Interesting. I hadn't thought to compare the anti-aliasing of ghostscript to 
Apple's preview. 

Does MacOS include ghostscript compatible utility on the command line?

Ben