Re: compiling the bleeding-edge on OS X

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 11, 2007, at 10:31 AM, John Swensen wrote:

> Ben Abbott wrote:
> > I'm having trouble compiling my cvs copy on Mac OS X with a Fink   
> > installation. Octave compiled via Fink works fine, btw. The result  
> > is  below,
> >
> > ./autogen
> > ./configure
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > checking for erfc... yes
> > checking for exp2... yes
> > checking for log2... yes
> > checking for struct stat.st_blksize... yes
> > checking for struct stat.st_blocks... yes
> > checking for struct stat.st_rdev... yes
> > checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
> > checking for struct tm.tm_zone... yes
> > checking whether closedir returns void... no
> > checking for struct group.gr_passwd... no
> > checking if mkdir takes one argument... no
> > checking for tputs in -lncurses... yes
> > 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
> >
> > However, I do have readline installed via Fink
> >
> > bens-macbook:~/src/octave bpabbott$ fink list readline
> > Information about 6553 packages read in 1 seconds.
> >       readline             4.3-1028        Comfortable terminal  
> > input  library
> >       readline-java        0.8.0-1024      Readline support for Java
> >   i   readline-shlibs      4.3-1028        Comfortable terminal  
> > input  library
> >   i   readline5            5.0-1005        Comfortable terminal  
> > input  library
> >   i   readline5-shlibs     5.0-1005        Comfortable terminal  
> > input  library
> >       term-readline-gn...  1.15-1004       Perl extension for the  
> > GNU  Readline
> >       term-readline-pm     1.0203-12       Minimal interface to  
> > Readline
> >   p   term-readline-pm586                  [virtual package]
> >       term-readline-pm588                  [virtual package]
> >
> > Any thoughts on what needs to be done to compile the code from  
> > the  cvs on Mac OS X using Fink to handle the dependencies would  
> > be  appreciated.
> >
> > TIA
> Here is the configure line I use to compile Octave from CVS on my  
> Intel
> Mac with the fink tools.
>
> ./configure CC=gcc-4 CXX=g++-4 F77=gfortran CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include
> LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib --prefix=/sw/opt/octave/cvs_2.9_20071007
>
> This does not include any of the sparse stuff.
>
> John Swensen

Regarding "sparse stuff", I assume octave uses suitesparse?

Which confuses me, since I'm unable to find any trace of suitesparse  
in the Fink installation (2.9.14-1) ... well except that my Fink  
install handles sparse functions without problem. For example,

octave:1> speye (5) .* fliplr (speye (5))
ans =

Compressed Column Sparse (rows = 5, cols = 5, nnz = 1)

  (3, 3) ->  1

Can someone confirm my inference, that suitesparse must be installed  
for the example above to complete without error?

If my inference is correct, I'll email the Fink maintainer of Octave  
regarding how he has included suitesparse.




I'd like to put together a local but fully functional fink package  
for the bleeding-edge Octave, and use Fink to manage the installation  
(lets me choose between versions).