Re: Compiling Octave for OSX 10.6.x - feedback

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 27, 2011, at 7:30 AM, Rudolf Widmer-Schnidrig wrote:

> Dear List,
> 
> I just compiled Octave 3.4.0 on OSX 10.6.6 following the instructions on
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/952e52dda82e/README.MacOS
> 
> I used fink to build a 32bit executable.
> 
> What I would like to add to section 2.3.1 is that in order to print to a 
> PostScript file
> I had to also install the packages
> 
> epstool
> transfig
> pstoedit
> 
> (sudo fink install epstool    etc...)
> 
>      thanks for the great piece of software.
> 
>                            -Ruedi

Thanks for the feedback. Regarding transfig, it is a virtual package for me (it 
is bundled with xfig). 

$ fink list transfig
Information about 10003 packages read in 3 seconds.
 p   transfig                             [virtual package]
     transfig-epsfig      3.2.5-1008      Convert xfig objs with -graphicx 
(-epsfig is deprecated)
 i   transfig-graphicx    3.2.5-1008      Convert xfig objs with -graphicx 
(-epsfig is deprecated)
     transfig323          3.2.3d-4        Converts xfig objs to various 
graphics formats (old ve

Did you install transfig without installing xfig?

Ben