Re: Which version of Octave?

[A S Hodel]

Three comments regarding Octave on Mac:

(1) Octave under Linux (my experience)
(2) Octave under Os X (installation instructions)
(3) Plotting under OS X

(1) I used Octave on Yellow Dog Linux for about a year without problem 
on a mac G4 cube
(the same machine I have now).  There are some benefits to working 
directly under Mac OS X,
but the mac on linux solution has some benefits too.  I have several 
external firewire drives, and
I'm too lazy to figure out how to talk to them properly under YDL.

(2) That said, it's really not that hard to install Octave on a Mac.

- Follow standard download instructions (I've been using CVS for about 
a month)
- set environment variables to point to libraries, includes (I use fink 
for a lot of things, so my flags are ... )
CFLAGS="-L/sw/lib -I/sw/include"
FLIBS="-L/sw/lib -lg2c"
LDFLAGS="-L/sw/lib"

Configure with
./configure -enable-shared --enable-dl --disable-static

then make and make install as normal.  (I always use gnuplot, not 
aquaterm, so this is fine for me.)

(3) The main difference between platforms at this point is the 
availability of plotting software.
I've always installed gnuplot and aquaterm using fink - it's 
straightforward.  Manual installation I've
tried in earlier versions (pre 3.8) without success.  Some people has 
used kmplot under KDE (also available under Mac OS X), but I have no 
experience with that.

On Wednesday, March 24, 2004, at 10:33 AM, Jonathan Stickel wrote:

> I don't have much basis to post to this thread since I have touched a 
> Mac only a few times in my life.  That said, what about installing 
> linux directly on your Mac hardware, perhaps dual boot with MacOSX?  
> Gentoo Linux is available for the ppc architecture, and octave is 
> available for easy install through Gentoo's portage system 
> (http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=octave).
>
> Please know that I'm posting out of curiosity, not because I claim to 
> know the solution.
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan

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