Re: octave & octave-forge install instructions for Mac OS X 10.4.x

[Marius Schamschula]

Henry,

On Jul 1, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:

> David,
> Installation of octave was successful but not gnuplot. I have the 
> following
> questions and comments.
> Henry
>
> 1. I installed gnuplot out of order after gfortran instead of after
> readline. I thought it would not matter because gnuplot is a 
> stand-alone
> application. Apparently it does matter or it was something else that 
> caused
> the problem. I cannot provide more details because I did not save the
> terminal output during installation. So much was "flying" by in the 
> terminal
> that I don't know if a particular package was installed correctly or 
> not. I
> was waiting for the prompt to re-appear and then installed the next 
> package.
> According to my notes installation of gnuplot took less than 1 minute 
> but
> this was the same for all packages.

Order does matter, at least when installing using "make install." I'm 
in the process of building a version of octave/octave-forge that 
installs using Apple's installer app. Then the order will not matter.

> 2. Apparently the installation has to be done in "one go" because when 
> I
> tried to re-install gnuplot the next day it failed with errors from the
> beginning to the end in the terminal output. After the computer had 
> been
> turned off all the packages in /tmp had disappeared and I had unzipped 
> the
> gnuplot tar ball again and put it into /tmp. However, all the 
> dependency
> packages were missing and therefore installation could not succeeed?

No, the dependancies need to be installed, i.e. in /usr/local. The 
presence, or lack thereof, of a package in the /tmp directory is not 
relevant.

> 3. Dependencies for gnuplot are aquaterm, gd, libpng, PDFlib-lite, 
> readline,
> zlib and X11. I assume that X11 is not need if I'm planning to use 
> aquaterm?
> The other ones need to be present in /tmp before installing gnuplot?

It depends on what revision of gnuplot. However, all my gnuplot 
packages, even the newest ones that default to Aquaterm, are compiled 
against X11, and thus expect X11 and the X11 SDK to be present. There 
some things that X11 will do that Aquaterm can't so far. You'll need 
X11 anyway, if you want to install octave-forge.

> 4. When installing aquaterm, I had two options: a tarball and a dmg. I 
> used
> the dmp and aquaterm was successfully installed in /Applications. 
> Should I
> have used the tarball because during installation of gnuplot, aquaterm 
> was
> not present in /tmp?

See above. I used the .dmg to build against.

> 5. What would be best to try next?

How far did you get? What is the install script saying?

> on 6/30/05 12:43 AM, David Collett at address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Hi, everyone.
> >
> > Version #3 of these OS X 10.4.x install instructions is up, with
> > changes/additions from several people:
> >
> > http://dcollett.macosx.com/octaveOSX104.html
> >
> > However, there still may be some incorrect info or items that should
> > be added/deleted.
> >
> > For those on the list who have been helping us with these
> > instructions and problems, would you please take a look at this list
> > and send any recommended changes/deletions/additions to me?
> >
> > The more accurate we can make these instructions, the fewer repeat
> > questions that will be posted to the group in the future.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > David Collett

Marius
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