Re: Compiling Octave for OSX 10.6.x - feedback

[Julien Salort]

Rudolf Widmer-Schnidrig <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Hello,

I've  tried to  compile Octave-3.4.0  on a  configuration that  is quite
close to yours but I still  have some problems.  I've used AT&T Research
gfortran  on Mac  OS  X 10.6  (Intel).   I have  also  compiled all  the
dependencies using AT&T gfortran to  make sure that there is no compiler
mismatch.   The configure  script runs  fine. All  libraries  are found,
including  fltk, gltk,  opengl  and  BLAS (I'm  using  the BLAS  library
provided by Apple).  (I have  disabled hdf5 however because it failed at
compile time)

The compilation runs fine too and ./run-octave opens a functional octave.

However, I have the following problems:
-> the fltk backend cannot be found, ie. gnuplot is still used...
(I had no warning at the end of the configure script about built-in graphics)
-> I have a segmentation fault when I exit octave
-> make check fails:
% make check
make  check-recursive
Making check in libgnu
make  check-recursive
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `check-am'.
Making check in libcruft
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `check'.
Making check in liboctave
make  check-am
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `check-am'.
Making check in src
make  check-am
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `check-am'.
Making check in scripts
making plot/gnuplot_binary.m from plot/gnuplot_binary.in
plot/gnuplot_binary.m is unchanged
Making check in examples
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `check'.
Making check in test
./build_sparse_tests.sh
./build_bc_overload_tests.sh ./bc_overloads_expected
../run-octave --norc --silent --no-history ./fntests.m .

Integrated test scripts:

 src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/besselj.cc ........................... PASS  180/180 
 src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/betainc.cc ........................... PASS    6/6   
 src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/bsxfun.cc ............................panic: 
Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
make[2]: *** [check] Segmentation fault
make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [check] Error 2

-> Although, the configure script claims fltk is going to be used, 
there is no actual link to it in the generated octave binary:
(I would have guessed it should have a dependency on libfltk.dylib)

% otool -L src/.libs/octave
src/.libs/octave:
        /System/Library/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib 
(compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 268.0.1)
        /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/OpenGL 
(compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
        /usr/local/lib/octave-3.4.0/liboctinterp-3.4.0.dylib 
(compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /usr/local/lib/octave-3.4.0/liboctave-3.4.0.dylib 
(compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /usr/local/lib/octave-3.4.0/libcruft-3.4.0.dylib 
(compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
        /System/Library/Frameworks/AGL.framework/Versions/A/AGL 
(compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
        /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib 
(compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 125.2.1)
        /System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/A/Cocoa 
(compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 15.0.0)
        /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib 
(compatibility version 13.0.0, current version 13.0.0)
        /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib 
(compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.3)
        /usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib 
(compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.3.0)
        /usr/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib 
(compatibility version 9.0.0, current version 9.0.0)
        /usr/local/lib/libreadline.6.2.dylib 
(compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.2.0)
        /sw/lib/ncurses/libncurses.5.dylib 
(compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.0.0)
        /usr/local/lib/libpcre.0.dylib 
(compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.1.0)
        /usr/local/lib/libgfortran.2.dylib 
(compatibility version 3.0.0, current version 3.0.0)
        /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib 
(compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)

-> For information, here are the options I used:
 export OPTFLAGS="-O2 -g"
 export PREFIX="/usr/local/bin"
 export 
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/sw/bin
 export F77="/usr/local/bin/gfortran"
 export CFLAGS="-arch i686 -m32 -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include 
-I/usr/X11/include/fontconfig -I/sw/include"
 export FFLAGS="$CFLAGS -ff2c 
-I/usr/local/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.2.3/finclude"
 export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/local/lib 
-L/usr/local/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.2.3 -L/sw/lib $CFLAGS"
 export CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS
 export CPPFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_REENTRANT -I/sw/include/qhull"
 export CC="gcc-4.2"
 export CPP="cpp-4.2"
 export CXX="g++-4.2"
 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/pkgconfig"
 export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5
 export FLIBS="-lgfortran -lgfortranbegin"
 export FFLAGS="-ff2c $OPTFLAGS -m32"
 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
             --with-blas="-Wl,-framework -Wl,vecLib" \
             --without-hdf5 \
             --disable-docs 
 make

Thanks in advance for any clue you might provide me with,

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