Compiling octave-forge on mac os 10.4

[Marius Schamschula]

Hi all,

Building octave and octave-forge under Mac OS X 10.4 has been, and 
continues to be, an adventure.

I've built octave 2.1.70 with the usual libraries (fftw, hdf5, readline 
5) and gnuplot. This required me to build gcc 3.3, since Apple's gcc 
4.0, together with gfortran built on top of that is broken (internal 
compiler errors... in g++). I had a little more luck with Apple's gcc 
3.3 together with g77 built using it. However, building gcc 3.3 from 
source (gcc, g++, g77) proved successful. This combination is also 
required to build a version of fftw that octave wants to use.

Now to my current problem:

I built gsl, qhull, cln and GiNaC (again using my own gcc 3.3) an 
wanted to configure octave forge.

For some reason I don't understand there is an issue with g++ and the 
bundle loader. I get an error message of the form:

/usr/local/bin/g++ -bundle -bundle_loader /usr/local/bin/octave-2.1.70 
-o chol.oct chol.o ov-re-tri.o -L/usr/local/lib/octave-2.1.70 
-loctinterp -loctave -lcruft -L/usr/local/lib/ -lmpi -llam 
/System/Library/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib 
/System/Library/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib -lfftw3 
-lreadline -lncurses -lmpi -lhdf5 -lz -lm -L/usr/local/lib/ 
-L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-apple-darwin8.0.0/3.3.3 
-L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-apple-darwin8.0.0/3.3.3/../../.. -lmpi 
-llam -lhdf5 -lz -lm -lfrtbegin -lg2c -lSystem
g++: couldn't run `/usr/local/bin/undle_loader-gcc-3.3.3': No such file 
or directory

From mkoctfile:

: ${DL_LDFLAGS="-bundle -bundle_loader /usr/local/bin/octave-2.1.70"}

I'm stumped,

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated,

Marius
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Marius Schamschula                               Webmaster

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