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Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki
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Thomas Treichl |
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Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki |
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Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:05:30 +0200 |
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Hi Matthias,
I added a few comments between your lines below...
Matthias Brennwald schrieb:
Dear all
Just a few comments on the instructions on how to build and install
Octave on a Mac (http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForMac):
- I had a hard time finding gfortran on the macresearch.org site. In
fact, I can't find it again right now. A better description on where
to find it would help a lot!
When I started to write the OctaveForMac page in January this year (resp. moved
the old page to another link and updated this page) I didn't want to add full
absolute site names because they normally change quickly and so it would be
necessary to update them all the time. Users could then write emails like "Hey,
you posted a broken link on the OctaveForMac page" and that is disturbing on the
lists.
Tricks like typing (eg. in google)
gfortran site:www.macresearch.org
should directly lead you to the desired sub-link. But if somebody else thinks
that we should add full link names then please comment...
- The urls to the gnu software don't work. Are they valid? I just
connected to ftp.gnu.org and went on from there.
You see, I didn't read until here and you write about broken links. I will have
a look and update them soon!
- gnuplot 4.2: to support X11 (which I prefer to aquaterm), the
developer SDK for X11 from XCode needs to be installed before
building gnuplot. For output to PDF files, I installed PDFLib-lite
before building gnuplot. (thanks to Marius Schamschula for helping me
with gnuplot!)
You did very well! But another target when starting to update the OctaveForMac
page was, to install so many "real" binary packages as possible (and Gnuplot for
Aquaterm is one of them). Consider Linux, should we add a installation page for
all the different distributions that are out there (and every distr. has another
gnuplot, version, other packages dependencies etc.)
- the 'Extensions': is it possible to install these after installing
octave? Or is it necessary to re-install octave to make use of the
extensions?
Ok, I try to describe this better - extension means "more features than the main
features" and you need to reinstall Octave.
In general: I think the number of Mac users would explode if Octave
was available as a package that would be installed using the normal
Mac Installer. This IS possible! I once downloaded the binary (Octave
2.9.9) from the HPC site, put that into a Mac package using Apples
PackageMaker program (that was a quick and dirty hack, though,
following the hints here: http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/
PackageMaker_Howto.html ). Then I successfully installed this package
via the Mac Installer program -- no shell hacking! just one or two
mouse clicks, et voila!! However, I don't know how to make a binary
archive like the one on the HPC site that already knows where to
install the files. I also don't know what (if) Mac specific
information should be added to the Mac package, and how/where to
include the license stuff.
Cheers,
Matthias
Ever heard about Platypus?
So long, Thomas
- Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki, (continued)
- Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki, Marius Schamschula, 2007/04/13
- Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki, David Bateman, 2007/04/14
- Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki, Matthias Brennwald, 2007/04/14
- Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki, Marius Schamschula, 2007/04/14
- Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki, Thomas Treichl, 2007/04/14
- Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki, Paul Kienzle, 2007/04/14
- Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki, Thomas Treichl, 2007/04/14
- Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki, Paul Kienzle, 2007/04/14
- Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki, Paul Kienzle, 2007/04/14
Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki, Daniel Oberhoff, 2007/04/08
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Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki, etienne, 2007/04/08
Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki, Paul Kienzle, 2007/04/14