Re: Compiling Octave for OSX 10.6.x - feedback

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 1, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Rudolf Widmer-Schnidrig wrote:

> On 01.03.11 13:54, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 27, 2011, at 7:30 AM, Rudolf Widmer-Schnidrig wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear List,
>>> 
>>> I just compiled Octave 3.4.0 on OSX 10.6.6 following the instructions on
>>> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/952e52dda82e/README.MacOS
>>> 
>>> I used fink to build a 32bit executable.
>>> 
>>> What I would like to add to section 2.3.1 is that in order to print to a 
>>> PostScript file
>>> I had to also install the packages
>>> 
>>> epstool
>>> transfig
>>> pstoedit
>>> 
>>> (sudo fink install epstool    etc...)
>>> 
>>>     thanks for the great piece of software.
>>> 
>>>                           -Ruedi
>> Thanks for the feedback. Regarding transfig, it is a virtual package for me 
>> (it is bundled with xfig).
>> 
>> $ fink list transfig
>> Information about 10003 packages read in 3 seconds.
>> p   transfig                             [virtual package]
>>     transfig-epsfig      3.2.5-1008      Convert xfig objs with -graphicx 
>> (-epsfig is deprecated)
>> i   transfig-graphicx    3.2.5-1008      Convert xfig objs with -graphicx 
>> (-epsfig is deprecated)
>>     transfig323          3.2.3d-4        Converts xfig objs to various 
>> graphics formats (old ve
>> 
>> Did you install transfig without installing xfig?
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
> 
> Dear Ben, yes - I installed transfig without installing xfig.       -Ruedi

Ok. I'll assume that either xfig or transfig need to be installed.

Thanks
Ben