Re: compiling the bleeding-edge on OS X

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 14, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> 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.

*sigh* ... I had some email silliness earlier. Sorry :-(

In any event, the obvious occured to me and I tried rebuiling octave  
under fink. During the configure process

configure: WARNING: UMFPACK not found.  This will result in some lack  
of functionality for sparse matrices.
configure: WARNING: COLAMD not found. This will result in some lack  
of functionality for sparse matrices.
configure: WARNING: CCOLAMD not found. This will result in some lack  
of functionality for sparse matrices.
configure: WARNING: CHOLMOD not found. This will result in some lack  
of functionality for sparse matrices.
configure: WARNING: CXSparse not found. This will result in some lack  
of functionality for sparse matrices.

So now I'm confused. Specifically, what functionality is missing?

Ben