Re: Testers needed for an Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacOS

[Thomas Yengst]

Ben,

Macbook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo
which lookup => nothing, but I can drill down to find it in 
/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/lib/octave/3.6.1/oct/x86_64-apple-darwin11.3.0/lookup.oct

my path is:
PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/Developer/usr/bin:/Applications/eclipse/AndroidSDK/tools:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin

it does appear that launching octave.app finds my .octaverc file because the 
first line of output is:
Octave was configured for "x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0".  <== aka Snow Leopard 
10.6.8

Tom


On Mar 2, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> 
> On Mar 2, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Thomas Yengst wrote:
> 
>>> From: Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
>>> To: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>
>>> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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>>> 
>>> I've put together a *large* X86_64 app bundle for MacOS X. The DMG is about 
>>> 300MB, and will expand to almost 1GB.
>>> 
>>> Its runs on MacOS 10.7 (Lion) on an i7 based Macbook Pro. It may only run 
>>> on an i7 processor ... and/or only on MacOS 10.7.
>>> 
>>> If anyone is interested in giving it a test-drive, I've started an upload 
>>> to my DropBox. The public link is below.
>>> 
>>>     http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14845154/Octave-3.6.1.app.dmg
>>> 
>>> If you give it a try, please let me know if it runs, if plotting works, 
>>> your Mac's processor, and the MacOS version your Mac runs. These last two 
>>> bits of info are available from "About This Mac".
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> Tested on a Macbook Pro, OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard with a typical macports 
>> installed.
>> The App clocks in at just under 1 GB, which is basically the same size as 
>> Matlab. Interesting.
>> 
>> It did work - pretty cool. Once you get all the wrinkles ironed out, I want 
>> to know how you did it.
>> I was surprised that it brought up a Mac TERMINAL rather than an xterm or 
>> aquaterm. In addition, got these messages on startup and shutdown
>> 
>> exec '/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/bin/octave'
>> GNU Octave, version 3.6.1
>> Copyright (C) 2012 John W. Eaton and others.
>> This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
>> There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
>> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.
>> 
>> Octave was configured for "x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0".
>> 
>> Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.
>> 
>> Please contribute if you find this software useful.
>> For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html
>> 
>> Read http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports.
>> 
>> For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.
>> 
>> error: `lookup' undefined near line 111 column 12
>> error: called from:
>> error:   
>> /temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/set/ismember.m
>>  at line 111, column 10
>> error:   
>> /temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/help/unimplemented.m
>>  at line 56, column 5
>> error:   
>> /temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/set/unique.m 
>> at line 143, column 9
>> error:   
>> /temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/optimization/__all_opts__.m
>>  at line 56, column 11
>> error:   
>> /temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/optimization/PKG_ADD
>>  at line 2, column 5
>> octave-3.6.1:1> 
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.  Which cpu does your MacBook Pro have ? (i7, Core 
> Duo, Core 2 Duo, ?)
> 
> The "lookup()" function is included in the bundle. On my MacBook Pro (i7 
> processor) running MacOS 10.7.3 (Lion) ...
> 
> which lookup
> `lookup' is a function from the file 
> /Users/bpabbott/Desktop/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/lib/octave/3.6.1/oct/x86_64-apple-darwin11.3.0/lookup.oct
> 
> What do you get for "which lookup" ?
> 
> What does "PATH" return ?
> 
> To produce the app bundle I used ...
> 
>       sudo port mdmg octave36 -fltk
> 
> ... to produce a dmg of everything in /opt/local needed to build and run 
> Octave. I'm using a local Octave36 portfile for this purpose. I then used a 
> Mac with no macports installation to transfer the contents of the dmg stuff 
> into manually constructed app bundle (I have a simple script for that).
> 
> Once all the wrinkles are worked out, I'll document the entire process on the 
> wiki.
> 
> Ben
>