Re: Octave on Mac

[A Scotte Hodel]

I received the question below.  The procedure that I used to compile 
octave-2.1.64 does not appear to work for the more recent 2.1.x branch 
release or CVS releases.  Has anyone else had success with this?

I've used a Makefile to do the octave/octave-forge install on Octave.  
The text of the Makefile is at the end of this email.

On May 8, 2005, at 11:04 PM, Aakash S Dalwani wrote:

> Respected Sir,
>         I am trying to install the latest version of Octave (2.9.2) on 
> a
>   node
>   of an Apple Cluster running Mac OS X server (10.3.7).
>
>      Although I am able to run the configure script, but I get the
>   following message when I run make.
>
>   "ld: multiple definitions of symbol Array<long>::operator()(int, int,
>   int) const
>   Array-i.o definition of Array<long>::operator()(int, int, int) const 
> in
>   section (__TEXT,__text)
>   Array-so.o definition of Array<long>::operator()(int, int, int) 
> const in
>   section (__TEXT,__text)
>   ld: multiple definitions of symbol vtable for Array<long>
>   Array-i.o definition of vtable for Array<long> in section
> (__DATA,__const)
>   Array-so.o definition of vtable for Array<long> in section
>   (__DATA,__const)"
>
>      After many such messges, finally make exits with the following 
> error
>   message:
>   "/usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed
>   make[2]: *** [liboctave.dylib] Error 1
>   make[1]: *** [liboctave] Error 2
>   make: *** [all] Error 2"
>
>
>       Please suggest a work around for this error,
>   Thanking you,
>   Aakash
>
>   Ps: I am e-mailing you because I saw your message on the mailing list
>   that you wanted to port Octave to Mac

Text of the Makefile:

CFLAGS="-L/sw/lib -I/sw/include"
CVS_RSH=ssh
CVSROOT=":ext:address@hidden:/cvs"
FLIBS="-L/sw/lib -lg2c"
LDFLAGS="-L/sw/lib"

all:  flags installed.octave installed.octave-forge

flags:
        @echo CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS)
        @echo FLIBS=$(FLIBS)
        @echo CXXFLAGS=$(CFLAGS)
        @echo LDLAGS=$(LDLAGS)

installed.octave: octave-2.1.64/src/octave
        @echo "install make:"
        (cd octave-2.1.64 ; sudo make install )
        touch $@

octave-2.1.64/src/octave: octave-2.1.64/config.h
        @echo "octave make:"
        (cd octave-2.1.64 ; \
          CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) CXXFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) FLIBS=$(FLIBS) \
          LDFLAGS=$(LDFLAGS) make )

octave-2.1.64/config.h: octave-2.1.64/configure
        @echo "Config.h make:"
        (cd octave-2.1.64 ; \
          CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) CXXFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) FLIBS=$(FLIBS) \
          LDFLAGS=$(LDFLAGS) \
          ./configure -enable-shared --enable-dl --disable-static )
        touch $@

octave-2.1.64/configure : ./octave-2.1.64.tar.gz
        tar -xvzf octave-2.1.64.tar.gz
        touch $@

installed.octave-forge :  octave-forge-2004.11.16/config.status
        @echo "make octave-forge"
        ( cd  octave-forge-2004.11.16 ; \
          CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) CXXFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) FLIBS=$(FLIBS) \
          LDFLAGS=$(LDFLAGS) make )

octave-forge-2004.11.16/config.status: octave-forge-2004.11.16/configure
        @echo "configure octave-forge"
        ( cd  octave-forge-2004.11.16 ; \
          CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) CXXFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) FLIBS=$(FLIBS) \
          LDFLAGS=$(LDFLAGS) ./configure )

octave-forge-2004.11.16/configure: octave-forge-2004.11.16.tar.gz
        @echo "unpack octave-forge"
        tar -xvzf octave-forge-2004.11.16.tar.gz
        touch $@




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