Re: Mac OS X build reference?

[Richard Campbell]

On Feb 19, 2011, at 2:00 PM, fork wrote:

> fork <forkandwait <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>> I am going to give building the latest
>> on my Macbook, Snow Leopard.
> 
> Success, at least for 32 bit!  Here is what I did:
> 
> Downloaded and installed xcode (I couldn't figure out how to build Blas/ 
> Atlas/
> Lapack and friends...)
> 
> Built and installed the newest stable gcc with --prefix=/usr/local 
> 
> Ditto for gnuplot
> 
> Ditto for other dependencies (sed, pcre, readline, make, etc).  When in doubt
> (like with make) I installed it.
> 
> Set the flags from Campbell's Readme:
> 
> export CFLAGS="-m32"
> export FFLAGS="$CFLAGS -ff2c"
> export CPPFLAGS="$CFLAGS -D_REENTRANT -D__LISTS__"
> export LDFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
> export FC=/usr/local/bin/gfortran
> 
> Reset the path to hit /usr/local/bin first (for our new gcc):
> export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin
> 
> Then ran configure with a bunch of stuff disabled (from looking at the logs 
> for
> the bus error with a more indiscriminant build, but not systematically):
> ./configure --disable-docs --without-framework-carbon \
>      --without-x --disable-64 --without-opengl --without-framework-opengl
> 
> make && make install
> 
> I ran make check as well, but there was a single error I don't remember what.
> 
> I have successfully run eig() and plotted from the command line, and printed a
> simple color eps file.  I get warnings about ghostscript, but it seems to work
> OK anyway
> 
> 
> 


Glad to hear it and looking forward to hearing about more progress. The more 
people succesfully building with the minimum amount of drastic change to their 
systems, the better.

It's not my readme - only section 2.2.1 that I submitted a patch for has 
significant contribution from me.

Do the --without-framework-carbon and --without-framework-opengl flags actually 
do anything?

Campbell