Re: Build Help on Mac Intel

[Joe Koski]

on 10/4/06 1:41 PM, Shane Lee at address@hidden wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I have a number of questions concerning my Mac OS X 10.4.8 builds. I
> was able to successfully install and configure a precompiled binary
> from HPC, but I would like to try ver. 2.9.9. Currently, I am running
> 2 machines:
> 
> PowerBook G4 1.33 GHz, 12", 768 MB, 80 GB, 10.4.8
> Mac Pro 2.00 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB, 10.4.8
> 
> Both are running the most current version of XCode Tools.
> 
> On the PowerBook, I was able to run ./configure but only with the
> --disable-readline option. I have readline-4.3 installed via Fink, so
> it's in the /sw/bin folder. Upon trying to install readline-5.1 from
> source, I ran into some difficulty there in the install phase. The
> message said something about running ldconfig, which has me stuck.
> 
> Is there any way to point the ./configure script to /sw/bin to look
> for and use readline?
> 
> If not, how do I go about getting readline installed properly,
> especially getting over the final hump of the ldconfig problem?
> 
> Finally, are there any optimization techniques for building octave
> from source on the Mac Intel?
> 
> Any advice on getting over the readline/ldconfig problem.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Shane.
> 
> --------
> For any other Mac OS X users, by the way, it's helpful to use the GNU
> Octave command
> 
> gnuplot_binary = '/sw/bin/gnuplot'
> 
> if you are having trouble with the gnuplot that is broken due to an
> accidental installation of AquaTerm ver. 1.0.1. This of course only
> works if you have installed gnuplot through fink and have used the
> default fink installation setup.
> --------

Shane,

I have successfully built octave-2.9.9 on my G5 with OS X 10.4.8 and
Xcode-2.4 Developer tools. The build passes "make check" without problems.

To build I installed libreadline-5.1 (libreadline.a) in /usr/local and
temporarily renamed my Apple (it's bogus, not really libreadline)
libreadline symlink in /usr/lib so that configure couldn't find it.

Before building octave you should install the sparse matrix libraries from

  http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/

if you want sparse matrix support in octave. There are seven interrelated
libraries that should be built and installed. ./configure will tell you
which ones you need.

Before configuring, try export LDFLAGS="-lSystem -lSystemStubs" to see if
that cures the missing saveFP and restFP symbols.

Good luck. You are probably the pioneer for octave-2.9.9 on an Intel Mac.

Joe