Re: Problem compiling Octave on Mac OS X

[Thomas Treichl]

Ben Abbott schrieb:
> On Jun 2, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > On Jun 2, 2009, at 2:16 AM, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
> > > I also stumbled recently into this recently. The problem is that the
> > > CoreGraphics framework is in the ApplicationServices framework and the
> > > latter is not passed to the linker.
> > >
> > > You must modifiy the declaration of OCTINTERP_LINK_DEPS in the file
> > > src/Makefile.in (or directly in the Makefile if you do not want to
> > > regenerate everything).
> > > Replace
> > > OCTINTERP_LINK_DEPS = \
> > >   -L../liboctave $(LIBOCTAVE) -L../libcruft $(LIBCRUFT) $(LIBS) 
> > > $(FLIBS) \
> > >   $(OPENGL_LIBS)
> > >
> > > by
> > > OCTINTERP_LINK_DEPS = \
> > >   -L../liboctave $(LIBOCTAVE) -L../libcruft $(LIBCRUFT) $(LIBS) 
> > > $(FLIBS) \
> > >   $(OPENGL_LIBS) $(CARBON_LIBS)
> > >
> > >
> > > Including (CARBON_LIBS) does the trick since it will automatically
> > > call the ApplicationServices headers and hence the CoreGraphics headers.
> > >
> > > If you make this change in src/Makefile.in, you must re-run the
> > > configuration.
> >
> >
> > Thanks Bernard, that did the trick.
> >
> > Ben: I remember you had evolved a fairly elaborate set of arguments to 
> > ./configure.  Does something you do have this same effect?  Would it 
> > be appropriate to patch the sources as attached?
> >
> > Rob
>
> My args to configure descend from those used by the Fink (a package 
> management system for Mac OSX). Thus, I'm not very knowledgeable. I've 
> cc'd Thomas Treichl as he he has a lot of experience in this area.

Hi Ben and others,

thanks for inviting me into this discussion. I currently am very busy and didn't 
have any chance to reply earlier. I've seen that modifications have already been 
applied to the sources... Seems to be a very good solution :-)

Best regards,

  Thomas