Re: Problem installing symbolic tool

[Alexander Hansen]

On 7/14/12 8:27 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi!
> I've run Octave 3.6.2 (installed from fink) on a Mac OS X 10.6.8.

32-bit or 64-bit ?

.I've tried
> to install symbolic tool many times, but 
> every times it failed. I know the package is based on GiNaC and cln and I've 
> installed the latest version fink had found!
> I report the error message to you:
> 
> “octave-3.6.1:2> pkg install symbolic-1.1.0.tar.gz
> /sw/bin/mkoctfile: line 27: i386: command not found
> make: *** [symbols.o] Error 127
> 'make' returned the following error: mkoctfile -v    -c symbols.cc
> error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file /sw/share/octave/3.6.1
> /m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1385, column 9
> error: called from:
> error:   /sw/share/octave/3.6.1/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 827, column 5
> error:   /sw/share/octave/3.6.1/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 383, column 9“
> 
> can you help me?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your support!
> 
> 

That looks like octave-3.6.1, not 3.6.2.

symbolic doesn't work with Octave > 3.2.4, which is why I don't have a
Fink package for it.

But let's see if you have a problem with your mkoctfile.  What do you
get from running "grep i386 /sw/bin/mkoctfile" ?
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