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Re: Building/Installing 3.8.1 on OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: Building/Installing 3.8.1 on OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) |
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Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:18:01 -0400 |
On Mar 21, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Clark Dunson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hey everybody!
>
> I really want to experience this 3.8! I am a long-time matlab/gnu developer,
> and thought I'd build it.
>
> But I have some sort of 'make install' location problem as fftw 3.3.4 is
> built and installed but octave:
>
> configure: WARNING: FFTW3F library not found. The slower FFTPACK library
> will be used instead.
>
> and also SuiteSparse-4.2.1:
>
> configure: WARNING: COLAMD library not found. This will result in some lack
> of functionality for sparse matrices.
> etc., I'll spare you the rest.
>
> I have experimented with various blah blah blah:
>
> ./configure --enable-shared
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared
>
> but no joy yet! I usually end up succeeding at these matters - eventually.
> But I though a sanity check would be smart. Should I push on my build, use
> homebrew?
>
> What will get me going quickest with Snow Leopard and Octave 3.8?
>
> THANKS!
>
> Clark
I've been building Octave using MacPorts for the dependencies for several
years. I recommend you first build Octave using Homebrew (that will install
all the necessary dependencies) and then uninstall Octave. It looks like the
formula is at the link below.
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-science/blob/master/octave.rb
After that you can try to configure Octave. Just in case Homebrew is doing
something special, I suggest you take a look at the configure options used by
the Homebrew formula. If they are patching the sources, I recommend you skip
that since 3.8.1 should build on MacOS X without any patches.
Ben
Re: Building/Installing 3.8.1 on OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard), Michael C. Grant, 2014/03/26