Re: Install packages in Mac OS X

[Vic Norton]

Thanks Thomas! This thread settles one thing for me. I have a copy of  
Snow Leopard coming from Amazon. I definitely will NOT install it  
until I can install an Octave that will work with it. I depend on  
Octave. I can do without Snow Leopard.

Regards,

Vic

On Sep 9, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Thomas Treichl wrote:

> 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