Re: GNU Octave 3.4.0 Released (Mac OSX?) (Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso)

[Richard Campbell]

On Feb 12, 2011, at 1:19 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 12-Feb-2011, Richard Campbell wrote:
> 
> | On Feb 12, 2011, at 4:11 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> | 
> | > Re: GNU Octave 3.4.0 Released (Mac OSX?) (Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso)
> | 
> | Joking aside, let's not lose sight of the fact that the ratio of people who 
> could potentially do amazing things with Octave, versus people who have the 
> necessary skillset and background to compile it from source, is probably very 
> large.
> 
> So it takes a lot of skill to type the five commands (after downloading)
> 
>  tar zxf octave-3.4.0.tar.gz
>  cd octave-3.4.0
>  ./configure
>  make
>  make install
> 
> ?
> 
> That is all it normally takes on my system.
> 
> jwe

But you've installed a LOT of dependencies in order to do so, and ./configure 
DOESN'T hold your hand through this process.

Try building Octave on a vanilla install of OSX...I'm working hard on 
documenting exactly what I've done to this machine to get Octave working, and 
it's still not anywhere near perfect (I get lots of warnings during regular use 
of Octave for plotting, etc).

Campbell