Re: builing on OSX 10.8

[c.]

On 1 Jun 2013, at 12:18, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

Ben,
Thank you very much.

> I'm not yet running MacOS 10.8, but, I recently had an exchange of emails 
> with Michael Dickens who is responsible for maintaining Octave's portfile.  
> Michael is running MacOS 10.8.  He used the attached portile to build Octave 
> 3.6.4.  Since he did some testing of accelerate and atlas, I expect you can 
> find what you need to build Octave there.
> 
> I notice you're using Accelerate
> 
>>   --with-lapack="-ldotwrp -Wl,-framework -Wl,Accelerate" \
>>   --with-blas="-ldotwrp -Wl,-framework -Wl,Accelerate"   \
> 
> 
> However, I recommend you avoid accelerate as a make check will seg-fault.  On 
> MacOS 10.7, I don't get a seg-fault, but do encounter several test failures 
> (except for tight tolerances, all pass using atlas).
> 
> src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/eigs.cc ..............................panic: Segmentation 
> fault: 11 -- stopping myself...
> make[1]: *** [check] Segmentation fault: 11
> make: *** [check] Error 2

Actually the Accelerate version was working without crashes until yesterday 
when I upgraded 
maports packages, I wonder what has changed ...

anyway if I can't fix the Accelerate-based build I'll switch to atlas.

> Ben

Thanks again,
c.