Re: compiling the bleeding-edge on OS X

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 11, 2007, at 1:05 PM, John Swensen wrote:

> Ben Abbott wrote:
> > On Thursday, October 11, 2007, at 10:34AM, "John Swensen"  
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Ben Abbott wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm having trouble compiling my cvs copy on Mac OS X with a  
> > > > Fink  installation. Octave compiled via Fink works fine, btw.  
> > > > The result is  below,
> > > >
> > > > ./autogen
> > > > ./configure
> > > >
> > > > <snip>
> > > >
> > > > checking for erfc... yes
> > > > checking for exp2... yes
> > > > checking for log2... yes
> > > > checking for struct stat.st_blksize... yes
> > > > checking for struct stat.st_blocks... yes
> > > > checking for struct stat.st_rdev... yes
> > > > checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
> > > > checking for struct tm.tm_zone... yes
> > > > checking whether closedir returns void... no
> > > > checking for struct group.gr_passwd... no
> > > > checking if mkdir takes one argument... no
> > > > checking for tputs in -lncurses... yes
> > > > 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
> > > >
> > > > However, I do have readline installed via Fink
> > > >
> > > > bens-macbook:~/src/octave bpabbott$ fink list readline
> > > > Information about 6553 packages read in 1 seconds.
> > > >       readline             4.3-1028        Comfortable terminal  
> > > > input  library
> > > >       readline-java        0.8.0-1024      Readline support for  
> > > > Java
> > > >   i   readline-shlibs      4.3-1028        Comfortable terminal  
> > > > input  library
> > > >   i   readline5            5.0-1005        Comfortable terminal  
> > > > input  library
> > > >   i   readline5-shlibs     5.0-1005        Comfortable terminal  
> > > > input  library
> > > >       term-readline-gn...  1.15-1004       Perl extension for  
> > > > the GNU  Readline
> > > >       term-readline-pm     1.0203-12       Minimal interface to  
> > > > Readline
> > > >   p   term-readline-pm586                  [virtual package]
> > > >       term-readline-pm588                  [virtual package]
> > > >
> > > > Any thoughts on what needs to be done to compile the code from  
> > > > the  cvs on Mac OS X using Fink to handle the dependencies would  
> > > > be  appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > TIA
> > > Here is the configure line I use to compile Octave from CVS on my  
> > > Intel
> > > Mac with the fink tools.
> > >
> > > ./configure CC=gcc-4 CXX=g++-4 F77=gfortran CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include
> > > LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib --prefix=/sw/opt/octave/cvs_2.9_20071007
> > >
> > > This does not include any of the sparse stuff.
> > >
> > > John Swensen
> >
> > Thanks John,
> > I'll give that a try when I get back to my Intel MacBook.
> >
> > Another question, does the prefix point to the location of the  
> > sources or to the location the executable is to be installed?
> >
> > Ben
> It designates the installation location.

Thanks. If anyone is interested I've compiled successfully using ...

sh ./autogen
./configure CC=gcc-4 CXX=g++-4 F77=gfortran CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include  
LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib --prefix=/Users/bpabbott/local
make