Octave 2.9.10 on my Mac

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Apr-2007, Matthias Brennwald wrote:

| Dear all,
| 
| first of all I'd like to say a BIG THANK YOU for the latest Octave. I  
| love the Matlab-like plotting stuff!
| 
| I've built 2.9.10 on my Mac (a PowerBook G4 / PPC) following the  
| instructions from http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForMac (more  
| or less). One problem I've encountered is that the help function does  
| not work well. For example:
| 
| octave:9> help legend
| dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib
|    Referenced from: /usr/local//bin/makeinfo

Did you build with --prefix=/usr/local/ instead of /usr/local ?

I seem to recall some people saying that can cause trouble like this.

jwe