Re: Building/Installing 3.8.1 on OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 21, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Clark Dunson <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hey everybody!
> 
> I really want to experience this 3.8!  I am a long-time matlab/gnu developer, 
> and thought I'd build it.
> 
> But I have some sort of 'make install' location problem as fftw 3.3.4 is 
> built and installed but octave:
> 
> configure: WARNING: FFTW3F library not found.  The slower FFTPACK library 
> will be used instead.
> 
> and also SuiteSparse-4.2.1:
> 
> configure: WARNING: COLAMD library not found.  This will result in some lack 
> of functionality for sparse matrices.
> etc., I'll spare you the rest.
> 
> I have experimented with various blah blah blah:
> 
> ./configure --enable-shared
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared
> 
> but no joy yet!  I usually end up succeeding at these matters - eventually.  
> But I though a sanity check would be smart.  Should I push on my build, use 
> homebrew?  
> 
> What will get me going quickest with Snow Leopard and Octave 3.8?
> 
> THANKS!
> 
> Clark

I've been building Octave using MacPorts for the dependencies for several 
years.  I recommend you first build Octave using Homebrew (that will install 
all the necessary dependencies) and then uninstall Octave. It looks like the 
formula is at the link below.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-science/blob/master/octave.rb

After that you can try to configure Octave.  Just in case Homebrew is doing 
something special, I suggest you take a look at the configure options used by 
the Homebrew formula.  If they are patching the sources, I recommend you skip 
that since 3.8.1 should build on MacOS X without any patches.

Ben