Re: Installing Octave 2.9.9 on a Mac

[Joe Koski]

on 12/20/06 1:18 PM, address@hidden at address@hidden wrote:

> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Joe Koski <address@hidden>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> on 12/20/06 12:06 PM, Matthias Brennwald at address@hidden
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 19.12.2006, at 14:03, Matthias Brennwald wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> 
>>>> after the recent talk on the Octave help list about installing
>>>> 2.9.9 on Macs I thought I'd give it a try, too. Since it seems a
>>>> less-than-optimal idea to combine the HPC binary with the HMUG
>>>> version of Octave forge I tried the following:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Install the HMUG version of Octave 2.9.9.
>>>> I downloaded the archive from http://www.hmug.org/pub/MacOS_X/BSD/
>>>> Applications/Math/octave/octave-2.9.9-2-osx4-ppc.tar.gz and tried
>>>> to install it according to the instructions at http://www.hmug.org/
>>>> pub/MacOS_X/BSD/Applications/Math/octave/README.octave-2.9.9-2.osx4-
>>>> ppc.html . That failed miserably:
>>>> 
>>>> Pizza:~/Desktop mbrennwa$ mv octave-2.9.9 /tmp
>>>> Pizza:~/Desktop mbrennwa$ sudo make install
>>>> Password:
>>>> Sorry, try again.
>>>> Password:
>>>> make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 2. Compiling from sources.
>>>> I downloaded the sources from ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/
>>>> bleeding-edge/octave-2.9.9.tar.gz and tried to install it according
>>>> to the instructions in INSTALL:
>>>> 
>>>> Pizza:~/Desktop/octave-2.9.9 mbrennwa$ ./configure
>>>> ....lots of stuff here....
>>>> checking for rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout in -lreadline... no
>>>> configure: WARNING: I need GNU Readline 4.2 or later
>>>> configure: error: this is fatal unless you specify --disable-readline
>>>> 
>>>> I have readline installed from Fink.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Can someone help me sort this out?
>>>> 
>>>> Also, what needs to happen to make Octave 2.9 appear on Fink? Fink
>>>> is just way more convenient than the above...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Matthias
>>> 
>>> I tried again to build Octave 2.9.9 from the sources. First I
>>> installed the latest readline from the GNU website. With this,
>>> configure completed without errors, but some warnings:
>>> 
>>> configure: WARNING: UMFPACK not found.  This will result in some lack
>>> of functionality for sparse matrices.
>>> configure: WARNING: COLAMD not found. This will result in some lack
>>> of functionality for sparse matrices.
>>> configure: WARNING: CCOLAMD not found. This will result in some lack
>>> of functionality for sparse matrices.
>>> configure: WARNING: CHOLMOD not found. This will result in some lack
>>> of functionality for sparse matrices.
>>> configure: WARNING: CXSparse not found. This will result in some lack
>>> of functionality for sparse matrices.
>>> configure: WARNING: HDF5 library not found.  Octave will not be able
>>> to save or load HDF5 data files.
>>> 
>>> I decided to go without sparse matrix support for the moment. So I
>>> went on to make:
>>> 
>>> Pizza:~/Desktop/octave-2.9.9 mbrennwa$ sudo make
>>> ...lots of stuff here...
>>> ...ocal/lib -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0/3.4.4 -L/
>>> usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0/3.4.4/../../.. -lz -lm -
>>> lfrtbegin -lg2c
>>> ld: Undefined symbols:
>>> restFP
>>> saveFP
>>> /usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed
>>> make[2]: *** [liboctave.dylib] Error 1
>>> make[1]: *** [liboctave] Error 2
>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Now what?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Matthias
>>> 
>> Matthias,
>> 
>> It appears that you are using OS X 10.3.9. Correct? If so you need to add
>> something like export LIBS=-lcc_dynamic before you configure. If I recall
>> correctly, the missing saveFP and restFP reside in libcc_dynamic.a that
>> should be located in your /usr/lib. That library has disappeared from OS X
>> 10.4.x, but those routines now apparently reside elsewhere.
>> 
>> Joe
> 
> You'll need 
> 
> -L/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk/usr/lib/gcc/darwin/2.95.2 -lcc_dynamic
> 
> Marius
> 
Marius, Matthias,

On my OS X 10.3.9, libcc_dynamic was already installed in /usr/lib, in
addition to the earlier versions in subdirectories. Check first in /usr/lib
for libcc_dynamic.a, then, if necessary, use the version that Marius
describes.

Joe