Re: octave & octave-forge install instructions for Mac OS X 10.4.x

[Henry F. Mollet]

Replies/questions inserted. Trying to clarify. Thanks.
Henry

on 7/1/05 12:35 PM, Marius Schamschula at address@hidden wrote:

> Order does matter, at least when installing using "make install." I'm
> in the process of building a version of octave/octave-forge that
> installs using Apple's installer app. Then the order will not matter.

I'm looking forward to an easier installation.

> It depends on what revision of gnuplot. However, all my gnuplot
> packages, even the newest ones that default to Aquaterm, are compiled
> against X11, and thus expect X11 and the X11 SDK to be present. There
> some things that X11 will do that Aquaterm can't so far. You'll need
> X11 anyway, if you want to install octave-forge.

I want octave-forge, I thought it was installed. How do I test for it?
I therefore will have to install X11. Perhaps easier to wait a little until
the Apple's installer app becomes available?

> How far did you get? What is the install script saying?

Is the install script what appears in the Terminal window during
installation? I followed the directions in David Collett's write-up with the
exception of gnuplot which was installed after gfortran instead of after
readline. I thought I would not mater and I got to the very end and saved
that part:

Installation complete.
To use, add the following to .octaverc:
   LOADPATH = [ 
'/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0/octave-
forge:/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m/octave-forge//:', LOADPATH ];
   EXEC_PATH = [ 
'/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/exec/powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0:',
EXEC_PATH ];
 
To uninstall, remove the following:
   MPATH    = /usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m/octave-forge
   OPATH    = 
/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0/octave-f
orge
   XPATH    = 
/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/exec/powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0
   ALTMPATH = 
/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/octave-forge-alternatives/m
   ALTOPATH = 
/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/octave-forge-alternatives/oct/powerpc-
apple-darwin8.1.0
 
Some FIXES may be out of date.  Check the scripts in:
   /usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m/octave-forge/FIXES
   
/usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0/octave-f
orge
against those in your version of Octave.

That's why I thought Octave-forge had been installed. I did not know that I
needed X11 for Octave-forge.

I also *assumed* that gnuplot had been installed but it was *not*. Octave
could not find it and it was not in /usr/local/bin.

As explained by you it did not matter if the dependencies were in the /tmp
directory as long as they were in the /usr/local directory. Therefore I've
unsuccessfully tried to re-install gnuplot two more times.

Perhaps what I had was a corrupted tarball because after downloading a new
tarball gnuplot-4.0.0-5-osx4.tar, I was able to install it successfully
because I got:
henry-f-mollets-emac:/usr/local/bin hfm$ /usr/local/bin/gnuplot

        G N U P L O T
        Version 4.0 patchlevel 0
        last modified Thu Apr 15 14:44:22 CEST 2004
        System: Darwin 8.1.0

Terminal type set to 'unknown'
gnuplot> set term aqua
Terminal type set to 'aqua'
Options are '0 title 'Figure 0' size 846 594 fname 'Times-Roman'  fsize 14'
gnuplot> set term X11
Terminal type set to 'X11'
Options are '0'
gnuplot> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/libexec/gnuplot/4.0/gnuplot_x11
  Reason: image not found






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