Re: Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Octave can not execute sombrero()

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 30, 2012, at 3:33 AM, Bobi Pu wrote:

> Hi, 
>       I am mac user, and a USC graduate. I am currently taking a Machine 
> Learning course, and this course recommends using Octave to solve problems.  
> I followed the instruction(http://wiki.octave.org/Installing_MacOS_X_Bundle) 
> to install Octave on my macbook(10.8.1) .
> 
>       But unfortunately, when I test sombrero () function, the terminal shows:
> 
> octave-3.4.0:1> sombrero 
> dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
>   Referenced from: /usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
>   Reason: Incompatible library version: libfontconfig.1.dylib requires 
> version 15.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 13.0.0
> dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
>   Referenced from: /usr/X11/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
>   Reason: Incompatible library version: libfontconfig.1.dylib requires 
> version 15.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 13.0.0
> /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot: line 71:  4296 
> Trace/BPT trap: 5       GNUTERM="${GNUTERM}" GNUPLOT_HOME="${GNUPLOT_HOME}" 
> PATH="${PATH}" DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}" HOME="${HOME}" 
> GNUHELP="${GNUHELP}" DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH="${DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH}" 
> GNUPLOT_PS_DIR="${GNUPLOT_PS_DIR}" DISPLAY="${DISPLAY}" 
> GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR="${GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR}" "${ROOT}/bin/gnuplot-4.4.3" "$@"
> /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot: line 71:  4301 
> Trace/BPT trap: 5       GNUTERM="${GNUTERM}" GNUPLOT_HOME="${GNUPLOT_HOME}" 
> PATH="${PATH}" DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}" HOME="${HOME}" 
> GNUHELP="${GNUHELP}" DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH="${DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH}" 
> GNUPLOT_PS_DIR="${GNUPLOT_PS_DIR}" DISPLAY="${DISPLAY}" 
> GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR="${GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR}" "${ROOT}/bin/gnuplot-4.4.3" "$@"
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> warning: broken pipe -- some output may be lost
> 
>       and can not draw the graph. By the way,  my mac's PATH does 
> include"/usr/bin" and "/usr/local/bin". 
>       If I add "export GNUTERM=x11" in ~./bash_profile(I've already installed 
> XQuartz), the result is the same: Octave still failed to draw that graph and 
> showed "broken pipe" warning.
> 
>       So, can you help to fix this problem? Thank you very much~

That bundle was built on MacOS 10.5 (? ... maybe 10.6).  We were able to get it 
to run on 10.7, but as far as I know there has been no success on 10.8.  I've 
added a note to the wiki.

        http://wiki.octave.org/Installing_MacOS_X_Bundle

Please install Octave using one of the package managers (Fink, MacPorts, or 
Homebrew)

        http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X

Ben