Re: Latest build problems with octave and OS X

[Michael Martin]

On Dec 18, 2004, at 2:10 PM, Joe Koski wrote:

> OK, call off the dogs. I upgraded to OS X 10.3.7, and configured with
>
> FLIBS=-lg2c ./configure --enable-shared --enable-dl --disable-static
>
> and the octave-2.1.64 build completed without errors. Now onward to
> octave-forge.

	Since the 10.3.7 update came out before the fink update to 
octave-2.1.64 did, I don't know if that was a problem or not. However, 
I have updated four OSX machines (all 10.3.7) to octave-2.1.64 without 
a hitch using fink.

	Octave-forge is another matter. For reasons not quite clear to me (nor 
sufficient time to really look into the matter), libpng3 from the 
stable branch gives the octave-forge compile serious indigestion. I had 
to remove libpng3 (but not libpng3-shlibs) first, install octave-forge, 
and then re-install libpng3. This is somewhat odd, for the Octave-forge 
info does not show libpng3 as an explicit dependancy. But aside from 
that oddity, Octave-forge goes well with fink and OSX.


	I would add that I pick up qhull, octave-forge, octave, gnuplot, and 
fftw3 from the unstable branch, which in the past always seemed/seems 
to work better then what is currently on the stable branch. I have yet 
to try and see if the unstable libpng3 branch will cure the 
Octave-forge ills I have seen with the stable libpng3 branch. Other 
that Octave-forge, the stable branch of libpng3 has behaved itself, so 
I am not quite ready to add its unstable branch to the mix. Too many 
unstable compounds might cause a nasty explosion.


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