Re: octave on OS X 10.3 (Was: no subject)

[Per Persson]

On Friday, December 5, 2003, at 05:32 AM, Paul Kienzle wrote:
> I haven't been able to install octave on os x 10.3.

Not at all?
I haven't switched over to 10.3 yet, but I did an install of octave 
2.1.50 on a freshly installed 10.3 using IBM's xlf fortran compiler. No 
problems with the install, but I haven't done any real testing.
(Only gotcha with xlf is that it needs -qextname added to FFLAGS)

I don't know about fink, but there seems to have been a flurry of 
updates/releases recently so maybe updating definitions etc. will help?

>  Can any fink experts explain
> why system-xfree86 doesn't provide x11?

system-xfree86 should IIRC be a placeholder for a manually (or default) 
installed X11. Clueless.

> Gnuplot works fine with Apple's x11,
> even with term x11.
> I don't have x11sdk.pkg available which the X11 FAQ claims
> will fix the problem.

This pkg will provide headers and stuff, probably necessary...

> I tried building a dummy x11 package which provides x11, but
> I'm not savvy enough to get equivs to build, never mind rolling my own 
> package from
> scratch.

I second the suggestion to try DarwinPorts 
<http://darwinports.opendarwin.org> which btw does not state x11 as a 
dependency for octave. It also builds standard OS X binary, 
self-contained installers from pkg descriptions (or should, I'm not 
sure of the present state, been away for a while).

Hope this helps,
Per



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