Re: Build Help on Mac Intel

[Joe Koski]

on 10/4/06 4:14 PM, John B. Thoo at address@hidden wrote:

> 
> On Oct 4, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Shane Lee wrote:
> 
>> A quick update concerning my building woes.
>> 
>> On the PowerBook G4, I was able to "successfully" run
>> 
>> ./configure --disable-readline
>> 
>> though it's not ideal, but running
>> 
>> make
>> 
>> yielded a long process that ended prematurely. The last bit of data
>> before it stopped was:
>> 
>> /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/
>> vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib(single
>> module) definition of _xerbla_
>> ld: Undefined symbols:
>> restFP
>> saveFP
>> /usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed
>> make[2]: *** [liboctave.dylib] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [liboctave] Error 2
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>> 
>> Any interpretation/suggestions would be mightily appreciated.
> 
> Would typing "sudo make" help?  (Also, would typing "sudo ./configre"
> work without having to disable readline?)  I'm groping in the dark in
> the hope of hitting a light switch.
> 
> ---John.
> 
John,

On a Mac, sudo gives you temporary root privileges and I mostly use it for
"sudo make install" to get around logging in as root. Unless you are
attempting to build an application inside /usr/local, it would not be
useful. The best strategy to keep from shooting yourself in the foot is to
build all applications outside the /usr area, and then use sudo for the
install in to /usr/local, or wherever.

Incidentally, when I tried sudo on a Linux box a while back, it didn't seem
to work the same way as it does on a Mac. Maybe our Linux brethren can
enlighten us on this issue.

Joe