Re: Installing Octave 2.9.9 on a Mac

[Matthias Brennwald]

On 20.12.2006, at 20:54, Joe Koski wrote:

> 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?

No, I'm on Mac OS X 10.4.8.

> 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.

Pizza:~ mbrennwa$ locate libcc_dynamic.a
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk/usr/lib/gcc/darwin/2.95.2/ 
libcc_dynamic.a


Matthias




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