Re: Build Help on Mac Intel

[John Swensen]

Joe Koski wrote:
> 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
>
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>   
I have been able to compile it fine on both a MacBook Pro and the 
PowerPC desktop Mac.
I got around the readline problem by making sure the fink version of 
readline is installed (I think it is by default), and using the 
following configure
Two kindof big caveats are that
   (1) you are using the fink 10.4 branch and *not* 10.4-transitional 
(if you have 10.4-transitional, just wipe it out and start over)
   (2) make sure to install fink's sed and that it is in the PATH 
before the Apple sed

./configure F77=gfortran CFLAGS="-I/sw/include" CXXFLAGS="-I/sw/include" 
LDFLAGS="-L/sw/lib -lreadline -lSystem -lSystemStubs" --prefix=/sw/opt

It seems to be working fine.  I haven't used it extensively yet, but 
what little I have used it has been without problems.

John Swensen