Re: Installing Octave 2.9.9 on a Mac

[Joe Koski]

on 12/19/06 12:28 PM, Matthias Brennwald at address@hidden
wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> --------
> Matthias Brennwald
> Office: Eawag, CH 8600 Dübendorf, +41 / (0)44 823 55 26
> Lab: ETH, CH 8092 Zürich, 41 / (0)44 632 09 39
> http://www.eawag.ch/~brennmat
> 

Matthias,

Yes, you did exactly what I suggested, and you did rerun ./configure.

OK, make file experts, how does the configure script determine that
libreadline is installed? There are several versions of readline.h floating
around in my /usr. Would installing readline.h from /sw/include, for
example, in /usr/local/include help?

Joe