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Re: Compiling Octave for Mac OSX 1.6.x


From: Ben Abbott
Subject: Re: Compiling Octave for Mac OSX 1.6.x
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:48:11 -0500

On Feb 19, 2011, at 5:48 PM, michaeldzjap wrote:

> Hi Ben,
> 
> Thanks for your response, I will try the gfortran from the link you
> suggested. 
> 
> As far as all the steps I have undertaken to build Octave, I basically
> followed all the steps as outlined on
> http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForMac exactly (including the
> extensions part), except for:
> 
> - Instead of adding this line to my .profile file: export
> PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin
>  I modified it to: export
> PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-darwin (not sure if this is
> correct   
>  though)
> - I followed all instructions for building SuiteSparse from the same link
> above, except instead of
>  executing 'make cx' I executed 'sudo make install' Come to think of it, I
> am not sure if I did: export
>  LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -lmetis" (do I have to add this to my .profile file as
> well? I guess I just have to  
>  execute it after the make install command has finished...)
> 
> The Octave source I used is version 3.4.0 obtained from
> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html

There is a README.MacOS included with 3.4.0. It has recently been updated. See 
the link below.

        http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/952e52dda82e/README.MacOS

The LDFLAGS variable needs to be specified *before* running make.

Ben



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