Re: Can't install octave-forge packages in a 32-bit OS X build, but can in a 64-bit one

[Alexander Hansen]

On 11/6/11 11:05 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> 
>> On 11/5/11 5:08 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 5, 2011, at 4:57 PM, c. wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 5 Nov 2011, at 21:54, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That might be worth a shot, though on 10.6 fink's flex-devel and the
>>>>> system's /usr/bin/flex are at the same version, so that leaves the
>>>>> ancient 2.5.4a from our "flex" package.
>>>>
>>>> No, they aren't, although the version number is the same, the version 
>>>> shiped with the system has been patched by apple.
>>>> c.
>>>
>>> Now that you mention that, I also remember we encountered that before. 
>>> Looking through the mail-list, I think the offending patch was the one 
>>> below.
>>>
>>>     
>>> http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/flex/flex-24.1/patches/scanEOF.diff
>>>
>>> Ben
>>
>> In any case, I played around with different the available flex options
>> (fink's flex, flex-devel [which normally has to be explicitly used
>> because it's out of the PATH], or the system's flex) with no change in
>> the results.
>>
>> Alex
> 
> 
> I reviewed some old emails.  I expect problems if autogen.sh is run using 
> Apple's version. When building the docs, I had encountered errors and warning 
> such as ...
> 
>       warning: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 92, column 2
> 
>       error: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 164, column 2
> 
> In any event, I updated by Fink packages, and am still able to build octave 
> using my build script. Over the next few days I'll try modifying my script to 
> reflect the differences in Fink's info file.
> 
> Ben
> 

Well and good, but can you install octave-forge packages?  _That's_ the
problem I'm having.

Octave _builds_, with minimal warnings, for me.  And the builds look
pretty much the same on i386, where pkg won't install anything, and on
x86_64, where pkg works.

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