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 1:59 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 11/6/11 1:10 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 6, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I plan to build using a script that closely follows the Fink info file, and 
>> check that the cs-list problem is absent.
>>
>> Once that works, I'll modify the octave343.info file and build and install 
>> with that. 
>>
>> At that point, I'll be able to try to install a package.
>>
>> My builds are slow (> 1hr) and can only try in my spare time. I expect my 
>> progress will be slow.
>>
>> Ben
>>
> 
> In parallel, I'm doing to do rebuilds of identical Octave-3.4.3 variants
> (with atlas and using fltk-x11) on cleaned-out 32-bit and 64-bit setups
> on the same machine:
> 
> 1)  To make sure that the same packages are installed by both Finks.
> 2)  To make sure that any external stuff from the system is identical.

My results were the same as before:  32-bit doesn't allow octave-forge
packages to be installed, 64-bit does.

I've posted build logs, build directories (unpacked and as tarballs) and
the output of 'octave_config_info' for both cases at

http://akh.users.finkproject.org/finklogs/logfiles/octave-3.4.3/
-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/