Re: Installing Octave 2.9.9 on a Mac

[Matthias Brennwald]

On 19.12.2006, at 18:42, Joe Koski wrote:

> on 12/19/06 6:03 AM, Matthias Brennwald at address@hidden
> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > after the recent talk on the Octave help list about installing 2.9.9
> > on Macs I thought I'd give it a try, too. Since it seems a less-than-
> > optimal idea to combine the HPC binary with the HMUG version of
> > Octave forge I tried the following:
> >
> >
> > 1. Install the HMUG version of Octave 2.9.9.
> > I downloaded the archive from http://www.hmug.org/pub/MacOS_X/BSD/
> > Applications/Math/octave/octave-2.9.9-2-osx4-ppc.tar.gz and tried to
> > install it according to the instructions at http://www.hmug.org/pub/
> > MacOS_X/BSD/Applications/Math/octave/README.octave-2.9.9-2.osx4-
> > ppc.html . That failed miserably:
> >
> > Pizza:~/Desktop mbrennwa$ mv octave-2.9.9 /tmp
> > Pizza:~/Desktop mbrennwa$ sudo make install
> > Password:
> > Sorry, try again.
> > Password:
> > make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
> >
> >
> > 2. Compiling from sources.
> > I downloaded the sources from ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/
> > bleeding-edge/octave-2.9.9.tar.gz and tried to install it according
> > to the instructions in INSTALL:
> >
> > Pizza:~/Desktop/octave-2.9.9 mbrennwa$ ./configure
> > ....lots of stuff here....
> > checking for rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout in -lreadline... no
> > configure: WARNING: I need GNU Readline 4.2 or later
> > configure: error: this is fatal unless you specify --disable-readline
> >
> > I have readline installed from Fink.
> >
> >
> > Can someone help me sort this out?
> >
> > Also, what needs to happen to make Octave 2.9 appear on Fink? Fink is
> > just way more convenient than the above...
> >
> >
> > Matthias
> Matthias,
>
> I solved the readline problem by installing readline-5.1 from the gnu
> website. It builds "out of the box" and installs in /usr/local/lib. I
> temporarily renamed the Apple libreadline and the .dylib versions  
> to force
> the octave build to use the static libreadline.a. As an  
> alternative, you
> could probably place a symbolic link to the libreadline.a located  
> in /sw
> into /usr/local/lib, and make sure /usr/local is on your path for  
> the build.

I tried that, but with no luck:

* my path:
Pizza:~/Desktop/octave-2.9.9 mbrennwa$ echo $PATH
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ 
local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/ 
powerpc-apple-darwin6.8/:/Users/brennmat/Library/texmf/bibtex/ 
bib2xhtml/:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin

* my libreadline stuff:
Pizza:~/Desktop/octave-2.9.9 mbrennwa$ ls -la /usr/local/lib/libread*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 466664 Dec 19 12:44 /usr/local/lib/ 
libreadline.5.2.dylibTEMPOTHERNAME
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel     21 Dec 19 12:44 /usr/local/lib/ 
libreadline.5.dylib -> libreadline.5.2.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel     21 Dec 19 20:19 /usr/local/lib/ 
libreadline.a -> /sw/lib/libreadline.a
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel     21 Dec 19 12:44 /usr/local/lib/ 
libreadline.dylib -> libreadline.5.2.dylib

* configuring Octave (same error as before):
Pizza:~/Desktop/octave-2.9.9 mbrennwa$ ./configure
...lots of stuff here....
checking for rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout in -lreadline... no
configure: WARNING: I need GNU Readline 4.2 or later
configure: error: this is fatal unless you specify --disable-readline

I have to say that I'm only a wanna-be UNIX geek at best... but maybe  
there is still some hope for me and Octave 2.9?


Cheers,
Matthias


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Matthias Brennwald
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