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

[Alexander Hansen]

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On 11/7/11 5:32 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2011, at 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
> 
> I've succeeded in building Octave and installing a package.
> 
> I'm running MacOS 10.6.8, my Fink version is ...
> 
> $ fink --version Package manager version: 0.31.4 Distribution
> version: selfupdate-rsync Fri Nov  4 13:20:59 2011, 10.6, i386 
> Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main
> unstable/crypto local/injected
> 
> With the attached octave-3.4.3.info file, I'm able to build octave
> and install packages.
> 
> octave-3.4.3:1> ver 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 
GNU Octave Version 3.4.3
> GNU Octave License: GNU General Public License Operating System:
> Darwin 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7 16:33:36 PDT
> 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 
Package Name   | Version | Installation directory
> ---------------+---------+----------------------- miscellaneous *|
> 1.0.11 | /sw/share/octave/3.4.3/packages/miscellaneous-1.0.11 optim
> *|  1.0.17 | /sw/share/octave/3.4.3/packages/optim-1.0.17 struct *|
> 1.0.9 | /sw/share/octave/3.4.3/packages/struct-1.0.9
> 
> The only problem I've encountered is when I try to remove
> octave343, I get ...
> 
> Removing octave343 ... dpkg - warning: while removing octave343,
> directory `/sw/var/octave/3.4.3' not empty so not removed. dpkg -
> warning: while removing octave343, directory `/sw/var/octave' not
> empty so not removed.
> 
> The change I made to the info file is to set the optimization to
> "-O0". I made this change after reviewing my notes. They indicate
> that I had to remove "-O2" from the CXXFLAGS in order to avoid the
> cs-lists problem.
> 
> I'm now rebuilding with "-O3" now to confirm I can reproduce the
> cs-list problem, and then will try a build with "-O0" in the
> CXXFLAGS and with "-O3" everywhere else.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

(fink-beginners accidentally showed up because that's my default
reply-to.  But I'm keeping cc to fink-beginners and -users because
we've had reports of install problems on both lists)

Thanks!

A lot of stuff got carried over blindly in the .info file from 3.0.5
through 3.2.4 to 3.4.3, so I'm not surprised that an optimization flag
could change the results.

I'll try builds using both of those changes, too, just for redundancy.
- -- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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