Re: Successful 32-bit built on OSX with only sed, fftw, and gfortran added to vanilla Snow Leopard

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 28, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:

> On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:23 PM, bpabbott wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 02:00 PM, Richard Campbell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> The README.MacOS file needs to be updated to reflect this MUCH smaller list 
>>> of critical dependencies (I don't think fftw is even needed, but Octave 
>>> wouldn't be very useful to me without it.)
>>> 
>>> - gfortran from r.research.att.com/tools
>>> - gnu sed compiled and installed with --prefix=/usr
>>> - fftw3 and fftw3f built as universal binaries (CFLAGS, FFLAGS, LDFLAGS all 
>>> set to "-arch i686 -arch x86_64", configure with 
>>> --disable-dependency-tracking)
>>> 
>>> - octave 3.3.54:
>>> export CFLAGS="-m32"
>>> export FFLAGS="-m32 -ff2c"
>>> export CPPFLAGS="-m32 -D_REENTRANT"
>>> export LDFLAGS="-m32"
>>> 
>>> ./configure --disable-readline --disable-docs
>>> make
>>> ./run-octave
>>> 
>>> I still get a cs-list error when I try to print:
>>> 
>>> octave:3> print('-dpng','test.png')
>>> warning: print.m: ghostscript not found in EXEC_PATH.
>>> warning: print.m: Ghostscript binary is not available.
>>> warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
>>> warning: print.m: fig2dev binary is not available.
>>> warning: print.m: pstoedit binary is not available.
>>> error: invalid assignment to cs-list outside multiple assignment.
>>> error: matrix cannot be indexed with {
>>> error: evaluating argument list element number 3
>>> error: called from:
>>> error: /Users/xnk/Downloads/octave-3.3.54/scripts/plot/print.m at line 377, 
>>> column 9
>>> 
>>> I will attempt the 64-bit version with the wrapper described elsewhere, but 
>>> once this cs-list problem is addressed I think this is ready to go in 
>>> README.MacOS for 32-bit at least.
>>> 
>>> Campbell
>> 
>> Richard,
>> 
>> I was under the impression that automake must be >= 1.11.
>> 
>> What version of automake are you using? The one I have bundled is version 
>> 1.10.
>> 
>> ---------------------------------------
>> $ /usr/bin/automake --version
>> automake (GNU automake) 1.10
>> Written by Tom Tromey <address@hidden>
>>       and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden>.
>> 
>> Copyright 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
>> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>> ---------------------------------------
>> 
>> I've cc'd John incase I have my facts wrong.
>> 
>> I've also attached a changeset which reflects your instructions. If it looks 
>> good to you, I can push it.
>> 
>> Ben
>> <changeset.patch>
> 
> It says 1.10. Would this only matter if you were running autogen.sh? I'm not.
> 
> Campbell

I'm not familiar enough with the auto-tools build process to know. But as I 
needed it and you don't that does make sense to me.

Ben