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

[Ben Abbott]

Tom,

What is the "path" in Octave?

Ben

On Mar 2, 2012, at 11:36 PM, Thomas Yengst <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII
>>>> 
>>>> 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
>> 
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