Re: Install packages in Mac OS X

[Thomas Treichl]

Vic Norton schrieb:
> I don't have Snow Leopard yet, but you might try this. It works for me.
>     1) Download "Octave.app for Mac OS X" from
>           <http://octave.sourceforge.net/>.
>     2) Drop the Octave application into your Applications folder.
>     3) To be able to use the shebang line
>           #!/usr/local/bin/octave
>        in your scripts, do
>           $ sudo ln -s \
>             /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/octave \
>             /usr/local/bin
>        in Terminal.
>
> Regards,
>
> Vic
>
> On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:28 PM, Xin Dong wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone successfully installed octave-forge packages with snow
> > leopard and octave 3.2.2? I tried to install image-1.0.10.tar.gz, but
> > failed.

Hi Vic, hi Xin,

I think the problem is a bit more complex. Apple has changed some more things 
from Leopard to Snow Leopard and with Snow Leopard everything that has to do 
with Octave's mkoctfile is broken now (ie. installing packages, the 'mkoctfile' 
command itself, the command 'mex', and so on) - in detail: Snow Leopard's linker 
does not accept my 10.4 build libraries anymore and that's why linking against 
my binaries completely fails. I've already commented on a similar problem here

  http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2009-September/009375.html

Just because of my own interest - what is the current GCC version from Snow 
Leopard's XCode tools? Is there at least a gfortran available?

Best regards

  Thomas