Re: Building/Installing 3.8.1 on OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)

[Clark Dunson]

It's true Ben.  Ports has now been removed (see steps below).  I finished the 
dependencies for gnuplot, it needed both '$ brew install lua' and '$ brew 
install pdflib-lite'.  Now I am in the Octave build itself. 

Octave build is stuck with:

autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
configure.ac:30: warning: macro `AM_SILENT_RULES' not found in library
configure.ac:21: error: Autoconf version 2.62 or higher is required
configure.ac:21: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 63
aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 63
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 63

brew version of autoconf = 2.69, automake = 1.14.1
apple version of aurtoconf = 2.16, automake = 1.10

Still working this one, but at least I am in the real octave build now!

THANKS AGAIN

Clark



Here are the steps I used to remove ports:

1. $ sudo port -fp uninstall installed

2. $ sudo rm -rf \
    /opt/local \
    /Applications/DarwinPorts \
    /Applications/MacPorts \
    /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \
    /Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg \
    /Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \
    /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \
    /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \
    /Library/Tcl/macports1.0 \
    ~/.macports


On Mar 24, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Mar 24, 2014, at 2:45 PM, Clark Dunson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 21, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>> Go brew!  Who knew? (:
>> 
>> Thanks again Ben.  Getting very close.  Still working dependencies.  Besides 
>> cleaning out old builds (pre-brew) and changing permissions of directories 
>> formerly created by "sudo make install" it has been very smooth.
>> 
>> The first real issue occurs during the gnuplot build.  Apparently the 
>> dependency relationship for LUA has not been worked out.  For example:
>> 
>> ../term/lua.trm:109:17: error: lua.h: No such file or directory
>> ../term/lua.trm:110:20: error: lualib.h: No such file or directory
>> ../term/lua.trm:111:21: error: lauxlib.h: No such file or directory
>> 
>> and:
>> 
>> ../term/lua.trm:172: error: ‘L’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> 
> Using Macports, I have the following dependencies.
> 
>  lua @5.2.2_1 (active)
>  texlive-luatex @30790_0+doc (active)
> 
>> I checked, remember I am on Snow Leopard (circa 2009), so:
>> 
>> $ which lua  = /opt/local/bin/lua
>> 
>> and:
>> 
>> $ lua -v =  Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>> 
>> Before I go get my own lua (I'm not in a hurry and would rather get it 
>> right), I thought I'd check with you folks.
> 
> My lua is installed in the same location as is yours.
> 
>       which lua
>       /opt/local/bin/lua
> 
> It looks to me as if you have Macports installed?  I'd avoid using two 
> package managers at the same time (i.e. either use Homebrew, or Macports, but 
> not both).
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
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