Re: Website Modifications (Re: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release)

[David Fang]

> My first octave on Mac (2.1.35 on 11/29/02) installation was done with Fink.
> I could not have done it without it but it was not easy.
>
> I installed of a newer version using Fink/Fink Installer (Octave 2.1.46 on
> 11/29/03) and it was not easy either. But it was I who screwed up because I
> did not read all the instructions.
>
> More recently (June 2005, my current octave installation 2.1.71 ) I
> installed from source on Mac OS X 10.4.x using a *26* step process following
> http://dcollett.macosx.com/octaveOSx104.html (apparently no longer a valid
> URL).

> > Is fink bad enough to be removed from the list?
> >
> > Also, do you have any experience with DarwinPorts?  Is it good/bad?  Up to
> > date?

Hi,
        FWIW, I've had no trouble with octave building through Fink in the
past two years to present.  (Last rebuild, not but a few nights ago.)

configuration: dual G4, OS X 10.4.5 (and 10.3.x in the past),
dist-tree: 10.4-transitional (compiled with Apple's gcc-3.3)
fink --version: package manager: 0.24.14, distribution: 0.8.0.cvs

[Fangs-Mac:~] fang% /sw/bin/octave
GNU Octave, version 2.1.72 (powerpc-apple-darwin).
Copyright (C) 2005 John W. Eaton.

If you have problems with Fink's build, shoot an email to one of the
lists.

David




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