Re: error building GUI on Mac OS-X 10.6.8

[c.]

On 22 Feb 2013, at 14:10, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Feb 22, 2013, at 6:57 AM, c. wrote:
> 
>> On 20 Feb 2013, at 14:25, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> More detail than you need, but in case it is useful for someone else, I use 
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> (1) ./bootstrap
>>> (2) macports_configure.sh
>>> (3) make -j4
>>> 
>>> My configure script assumes MacPorts is installed and uses gcc 4.5 by 
>>> default.
>>> 
>>> My first guess is that qscintilla is not installed.
>>> 
>>> I have the include file in /opt/local/include/Qsci/qsciscintilla.h
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> Your first guess was right, just installing qscintilla allowed the build to 
>> finish.
>> I am now getting this error when starting the GUI:
>> 
>> ./run-octave 
>> The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality 
>> safely. You MUST exec().
>> Break on 
>> __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__()
>>  to debug.
>> 
>> so I can't even get the "welcome" dialog to show up.
>> The settings I am now using for configure (derived from your script) are the 
>> following:
>> 
>> ---------------
>> ../octave/configure                                        \
>>   CC=/opt/local/bin/gcc-mp-4.5                           \
>>   CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -m64"                                \
>>   CPPFLAGS="-D_THREAD_SAFE -I/opt/local/include"         \
>>   LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib -m64"                        \
>>   CXX=/opt/local/bin/g++-mp-4.5                          \
>>   CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -m64"                              \
>>   F77=/opt/local/bin/gfortran-mp-4.5                     \
>>   FFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -m64"                                \
>>   LLVM_CONFIG=/opt/local/bin/llvm-config-mp-3.1          \
>>   --with-lapack="-ldotwrp -Wl,-framework -Wl,Accelerate" \
>>   --prefix=/opt/octave/3.7                               \
>>   --enable-gui                                           \
>>   --enable-jit                                           \
>>   --disable-java                                         \
>>   --with-framework-carbon
>> ---------------
>> 
>> Can you see anything important I am missing? 
>> The only differences I see are that I am using "-O2" instead of "-O0" and 
>> linking 
>> to framework Accelerate rather than Atlas, but I don't think these are 
>> relevant as far as 
>> the GUI is concerned, are they?
>> 
>> Could you show the output of 
>> 
>> head -n 10 config.log
>> 
>> to help me spot other differences?
>> 
>> Thank you very much!
>> c.
> 
> Opps!   My mistake.  On MacOS X the GUI needs the patch jwe posted to the 
> list earlier in the week.
> 
>       
> https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2013-February/032152.html
> 
> It's attached.
> 
> Ben
> 
> <diffs.txt>
> 

Ben,
Thanks now I can see the GUI on mountain lion …
c.