Re: MXE Octave: "... has no symbols" warning under Mac OS X

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 23, 2013, at 9:36 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 09/23/2013 09:19 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 23, 2013, at 8:59 AM, c. wrote:
>> 
>>> On 23 Sep 2013, at 14:29, Ben Abbott<address@hidden>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> We could create a bungle via macports alone, but it would include 
>>>> build/runtime dependencies of dependencies of dependencies ... resulting 
>>>> in about 1GB for a bundle.  The bigger concern (for me) is that we may end 
>>>> up bundling non-GPL stuff and be unaware of it.
>>>> 
>>>> Ben
>>> 
>>> I agree with your concern, but it should be easy to check license of every 
>>> recursive dependency of Octave.
>>> I think that could be done via something like:
>>> 
>>> port info --name --license rdepof:octave
>>> 
>>> if I'm not mistaken this should produce a list of all dependencies and 
>>> dependencies of dependencies with the corresponding license.
>>> 
>>> c.
>> 
>> METIS, pdflib, and gnuplot show up with licenses labeled as "Restrictive".
> 
> You need to compile SuiteSparse without METIS.

Macports now supports building SuiteSparse and Octave without METIS (actually 
this is now the default).  Michael Dickens at Macports did this for us several 
months back.

> The license of gnuplot is OK, we use it, but we are not linking to it.
> 
> How is pdflib used?

It is linked to gnuplot.  Does that mean we are clean on the licensing end?

Ben