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Re: Testers needed for an Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacO
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: Testers needed for an Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacOS |
Date: |
Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:39:32 -0500 |
Tom,
What is the "path" in Octave?
Ben
On Mar 2, 2012, at 11:36 PM, Thomas Yengst <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ben,
>
> Macbook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo
> which lookup => nothing, but I can drill down to find it in
> /Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/lib/octave/3.6.1/oct/x86_64-apple-darwin11.3.0/lookup.oct
>
> my path is:
> PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/Developer/usr/bin:/Applications/eclipse/AndroidSDK/tools:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
>
> it does appear that launching octave.app finds my .octaverc file because the
> first line of output is:
> Octave was configured for "x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0". <== aka Snow Leopard
> 10.6.8
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 2, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Thomas Yengst wrote:
>>
>>>> From: Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
>>>> To: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>
>>>> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII
>>>>
>>>> I've put together a *large* X86_64 app bundle for MacOS X. The DMG is
>>>> about 300MB, and will expand to almost 1GB.
>>>>
>>>> Its runs on MacOS 10.7 (Lion) on an i7 based Macbook Pro. It may only run
>>>> on an i7 processor ... and/or only on MacOS 10.7.
>>>>
>>>> If anyone is interested in giving it a test-drive, I've started an upload
>>>> to my DropBox. The public link is below.
>>>>
>>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14845154/Octave-3.6.1.app.dmg
>>>>
>>>> If you give it a try, please let me know if it runs, if plotting works,
>>>> your Mac's processor, and the MacOS version your Mac runs. These last two
>>>> bits of info are available from "About This Mac".
>>>>
>>>> Ben
>>>
>>> Tested on a Macbook Pro, OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard with a typical macports
>>> installed.
>>> The App clocks in at just under 1 GB, which is basically the same size as
>>> Matlab. Interesting.
>>>
>>> It did work - pretty cool. Once you get all the wrinkles ironed out, I want
>>> to know how you did it.
>>> I was surprised that it brought up a Mac TERMINAL rather than an xterm or
>>> aquaterm. In addition, got these messages on startup and shutdown
>>>
>>> exec '/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/bin/octave'
>>> GNU Octave, version 3.6.1
>>> Copyright (C) 2012 John W. Eaton and others.
>>> This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
>>> There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
>>> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For details, type `warranty'.
>>>
>>> Octave was configured for "x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0".
>>>
>>> Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.
>>>
>>> Please contribute if you find this software useful.
>>> For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html
>>>
>>> Read http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports.
>>>
>>> For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.
>>>
>>> error: `lookup' undefined near line 111 column 12
>>> error: called from:
>>> error:
>>> /temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/set/ismember.m
>>> at line 111, column 10
>>> error:
>>> /temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/help/unimplemented.m
>>> at line 56, column 5
>>> error:
>>> /temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/set/unique.m
>>> at line 143, column 9
>>> error:
>>> /temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/optimization/__all_opts__.m
>>> at line 56, column 11
>>> error:
>>> /temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/optimization/PKG_ADD
>>> at line 2, column 5
>>> octave-3.6.1:1>
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback. Which cpu does your MacBook Pro have ? (i7, Core
>> Duo, Core 2 Duo, ?)
>>
>> The "lookup()" function is included in the bundle. On my MacBook Pro (i7
>> processor) running MacOS 10.7.3 (Lion) ...
>>
>> which lookup
>> `lookup' is a function from the file
>> /Users/bpabbott/Desktop/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/lib/octave/3.6.1/oct/x86_64-apple-darwin11.3.0/lookup.oct
>>
>> What do you get for "which lookup" ?
>>
>> What does "PATH" return ?
>>
>> To produce the app bundle I used ...
>>
>> sudo port mdmg octave36 -fltk
>>
>> ... to produce a dmg of everything in /opt/local needed to build and run
>> Octave. I'm using a local Octave36 portfile for this purpose. I then used a
>> Mac with no macports installation to transfer the contents of the dmg stuff
>> into manually constructed app bundle (I have a simple script for that).
>>
>> Once all the wrinkles are worked out, I'll document the entire process on
>> the wiki.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>
- Re: 3rd pass for Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacOS, (continued)
- Re: 3rd pass for Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacOS, Ben Abbott, 2012/03/09
- Re: 3rd pass for Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacOS, Ray Zimmerman, 2012/03/09
- Re: 3rd pass for Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacOS, Ben Abbott, 2012/03/09
- Re: 3rd pass for Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacOS, Ray Zimmerman, 2012/03/09
- Re: 3rd pass for Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacOS, Thomas Yengst, 2012/03/09
- Re: 3rd pass for Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacOS, Ben Abbott, 2012/03/09
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- Re: 3rd pass for Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacOS, Ben Abbott, 2012/03/14
Testers needed for an Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacOS, Thomas Yengst, 2012/03/02