Re: Testing octave-3.7.0+

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 8, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Jul 8, 2012, at 10:56 AM, mmartins wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am trying to run octave-3.7.0+ to work a heavy image processing project on
>> a Macbook Pro i7, 4 core, 4GB.
>> The downloaded image file was: Octave-X86_64-3.7.0+v7.dmg
>> 
>> When installing the package: image-1.0.15.tar.gz
>> I wrote at the Octave Prompt:
>>    pkg install image-1.0.15.tar.gz
>> 
>> I get the error report shown below, can anyone help me? Many thanks!
>> M.Martins
>> 
>> *octave-3.7.0+:2> pkg install image-1.0.15.tar.gz*
>> dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/gcc45/libgcc_s.1.dylib
>> Referenced from:
>> /Applications/Octave-3.7.0+.app/Contents/Resources/bin/g++-mp-4.5
>> Reason: image not found
>> /Applications/Octave-3.7.0+.app/Contents/Resources/bin/mkoctfile: line 509:
>> 48713 Trace/BPT trap: 5      
>> "/Applications/Octave-3.7.0+.app/Contents/Resources/bin/g++-mp-4.5" -c
>> -I"/Applications/Octave-3.7.0+.app/Contents/Resources/include/curl"
>> -I"/Applications/Octave-3.7.0+.app/Contents/Resources/include/readline"
>> -fPIC
>> -I"/Applications/Octave-3.7.0+.app/Contents/Resources/include/Octave-3.7.0+/octave"/..
>> -I"/Applications/Octave-3.7.0+.app/Contents/Resources/include/Octave-3.7.0+/octave"
>> -I"/Applications/Octave-3.7.0+.app/Contents/Resources/include/Octave-3.7.0+"
>> -I"/Applications/Octave-3.7.0+.app/Contents/Resources/include/curl"
>> -I"/Applications/Octave-3.7.0+.app/Contents/Resources/include/readline"
>> -Wall __spatial_filtering__.cc -o __spatial_filtering__.o
>> make: *** [__spatial_filtering__.oct] Error 133
>> 'make' returned the following error: mkoctfile -Wall
>> __spatial_filtering__.cc
>> error: called from `configure_make' in file
>> /Applications/Octave-3.7.0+.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.7.0+/m/pkg/private/configure_make.m
>> near line 71, column 9
>> error: called from:
>> error:  
>> /Applications/Octave-3.7.0+.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.7.0+/m/pkg/private/install.m
>> at line 201, column 5
>> error:  
>> /Applications/Octave-3.7.0+.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.7.0+/m/pkg/pkg.m
>> at line 389, column 9
>> *octave-3.7.0+:2> *
> 
> Thanks for the feedback on the Octave MacOS X binary.
> 
> Are you running MacOS 10.7 on your Macbook Pro i7?
> 
> I suspect the problem is the mkoctfile, which I have not yet tried to debug. 
> It resides in 
> /Applications/Octave-3.7.0+/Contents/Resources/bin/mkoctfile-3.7.0+.
> 
> I've attached a modified version which may work for you. You'll need to 
> replace the one above with the one I've attached.  It has no chance of 
> working if you try to use it from a different location.
> 
> Please let us know what happens when you use this version.
> 
> Ben
> 
> <mkoctfile-3.7.0+>

I had some time to look at using mkoctfile today.  The changes to the version I 
emailed earlier are not sufficient.  I tried patching other files as well, but 
have not yet been successful.  When I have time I'll look into this further. 
For now I'll keep some notes on the wiki.

        
http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Create_a_MacOS_X_App_Bundle_Using_MacPorts#TODO_List

Ben