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Re: Compiling Octave for OSX 10.6.x - feedback
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: Compiling Octave for OSX 10.6.x - feedback |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:05:22 -0500 |
On Mar 1, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Rudolf Widmer-Schnidrig wrote:
> On 01.03.11 13:54, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
> Dear Ben, yes - I installed transfig without installing xfig. -Ruedi
Ok. I'll assume that either xfig or transfig need to be installed.
Thanks
Ben