Re: Can't install octave-forge packages in a 32-bit OS X build, but can in a 64-bit one

[Alexander Hansen]

On 11/6/11 1:10 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
> On Nov 6, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> 
>> On 11/6/11 11:05 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> On Nov 6, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11/5/11 5:08 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 5, 2011, at 4:57 PM, c. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5 Nov 2011, at 21:54, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That might be worth a shot, though on 10.6 fink's flex-devel and the
>>>>>>> system's /usr/bin/flex are at the same version, so that leaves the
>>>>>>> ancient 2.5.4a from our "flex" package.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, they aren't, although the version number is the same, the version 
>>>>>> shiped with the system has been patched by apple.
>>>>>> c.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now that you mention that, I also remember we encountered that before. 
>>>>> Looking through the mail-list, I think the offending patch was the one 
>>>>> below.
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>> http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/flex/flex-24.1/patches/scanEOF.diff
>>>>>
>>>>> Ben
>>>>
>>>> In any case, I played around with different the available flex options
>>>> (fink's flex, flex-devel [which normally has to be explicitly used
>>>> because it's out of the PATH], or the system's flex) with no change in
>>>> the results.
>>>>
>>>> Alex
>>>
>>> I reviewed some old emails.  I expect problems if autogen.sh is run using 
>>> Apple's version. When building the docs, I had encountered errors and 
>>> warning such as ...
>>>
>>>     warning: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 92, column 2
>>>
>>>     error: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 164, column 2
>>>
>>> In any event, I updated by Fink packages, and am still able to build octave 
>>> using my build script. Over the next few days I'll try modifying my script 
>>> to reflect the differences in Fink's info file.
>>>
>>> Ben
>>
>> Well and good, but can you install octave-forge packages?  _That's_ the
>> problem I'm having.
>>
>> Octave _builds_, with minimal warnings, for me.  And the builds look
>> pretty much the same on i386, where pkg won't install anything, and on
>> x86_64, where pkg works.
> 
> I plan to build using a script that closely follows the Fink info file, and 
> check that the cs-list problem is absent.
> 
> Once that works, I'll modify the octave343.info file and build and install 
> with that. 
> 
> At that point, I'll be able to try to install a package.
> 
> My builds are slow (> 1hr) and can only try in my spare time. I expect my 
> progress will be slow.
> 
> Ben
> 

In parallel, I'm doing to do rebuilds of identical Octave-3.4.3 variants
(with atlas and using fltk-x11) on cleaned-out 32-bit and 64-bit setups
on the same machine:

1)  To make sure that the same packages are installed by both Finks.
2)  To make sure that any external stuff from the system is identical.