Additions for OS X

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Nov-2002, Per Persson <address@hidden> wrote:

| I've been adding a few pieces to get octave building out-of-the box for 
| OS X.
| In particular I'd like your opinion on the way I'm thinking about 
| handling errors in BLAS routines.
| Presently this is done by providing our own implementation of xerbla, 
| but the Mach-O format of OS X does not allow this kind of approach.
| The BLAS libs provided in OS X allows us to install an error handler 
| instead, so I introduced a INSTALL_BLAS_ERRORHANDLER option in 
| configure which leaves XERBLA to be empty in src/Makefile if true (see 
| below). This flag would also be used to actually switch in error 
| handling code. Is this an acceptable change?

Seems OK.  How do you set INSTALL_BLAS_ERRORHANDLER?

jwe