Statically linking octave-2.1.72 in MacOS X

[Carlos Sánchez de La Lama]

Hello,

I have been trying to compile octave-2.1.72 in my Tiger iBook, and  
after peering a bit on this list I found the accepted method for  
doing it is to use dynamic libraries (configure --enable-shared -- 
enable-dynamic --disable-static). Personally I do not like fixing  
linking errors this way, it makes me feel something is not really  
fixed but only somehow "hidden", so after some testing I have found a  
way to compile it statically. I send it to the list just it is useful  
for someone.

I have installed in $HOME/Unix/local the following packages octave  
requires: dejagnu-1.4.4 (not really needed), gcc-3.4.5 (I put it  
after system directories in PATH so I use Apple's gcc, but I need  
this for g77), gnuplot-4.0.0, readline-5.1 (MacOS seems to have  
libedit instead of this) and ncurses-5.5 (system ncurses has a symbol  
conflict with my compiled readline).

Now I configure with:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/Unix/local CPPFLAGS=-I$HOME/Unix/local/ 
include LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/Unix/local/lib -lcc_dynamic -Wl,- 
search_paths_first"

to be sure it will take the ncurses from my local directory (Apple's  
ld appears to always take the .dylib instead of any present .a unless  
given the -search_paths_first parameter).

After the I edit src/Makefile to comment out the line "XERBLA = ../ 
libcruft/blas-xtra/xerbla.o", and  also edit libcruft/Makefile to  
remove blas-xtra from the CRUFT_DIRS definition (I think these two  
are configure errors, as it detect MacOS X has a blas framework and  
uses it, but it also wants to put blas-xtra into liboctinterp and  
libcruft, causing a duplicate symbol error during linking if not  
removed).

And then make & make install as usual. I have an local user static  
octave build, working correctly so far (make check was also  
sucessful). I am quite new to MacOS X, and I do not really know a lot  
about how dynamic libs work on this system , so if anybody sees  
something wrong in this procedure feel free to comment.


Carlos Sánchez de La Lama
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