Re: Building/Installing 3.8.1 on OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)

[Clark Dunson]

Go brew!  Who knew? (:

Thanks again Ben.  Getting very close.  Still working dependencies.  Besides 
cleaning out old builds (pre-brew) and changing permissions of directories 
formerly created by "sudo make install" it has been very smooth.

The first real issue occurs during the gnuplot build.  Apparently the 
dependency relationship for LUA has not been worked out.  For example:

../term/lua.trm:109:17: error: lua.h: No such file or directory
../term/lua.trm:110:20: error: lualib.h: No such file or directory
../term/lua.trm:111:21: error: lauxlib.h: No such file or directory

and:

../term/lua.trm:172: error: ‘L’ undeclared (first use in this function)

I checked, remember I am on Snow Leopard (circa 2009), so:

$ which lua  = /opt/local/bin/lua

and:

$ lua -v =  Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

Before I go get my own lua (I'm not in a hurry and would rather get it right), 
I thought I'd check with you folks.

THANKS AGAIN

Clark

On Mar 21, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

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> On Mar 21, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Clark Dunson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Hey everybody!
>> 
>> I really want to experience this 3.8!  I am a long-time matlab/gnu 
>> developer, and thought I'd build it.
>> 
>> But I have some sort of 'make install' location problem as fftw 3.3.4 is 
>> built and installed but octave:
>> 
>> configure: WARNING: FFTW3F library not found.  The slower FFTPACK library 
>> will be used instead.
>> 
>> and also SuiteSparse-4.2.1:
>> 
>> configure: WARNING: COLAMD library not found.  This will result in some lack 
>> of functionality for sparse matrices.
>> etc., I'll spare you the rest.
>> 
>> I have experimented with various blah blah blah:
>> 
>> ./configure --enable-shared
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared
>> 
>> but no joy yet!  I usually end up succeeding at these matters - eventually.  
>> But I though a sanity check would be smart.  Should I push on my build, use 
>> homebrew?  
>> 
>> What will get me going quickest with Snow Leopard and Octave 3.8?
>> 
>> THANKS!
>> 
>> Clark
> 
> I've been building Octave using MacPorts for the dependencies for several 
> years.  I recommend you first build Octave using Homebrew (that will install 
> all the necessary dependencies) and then uninstall Octave. It looks like the 
> formula is at the link below.
> 
> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-science/blob/master/octave.rb
> 
> After that you can try to configure Octave.  Just in case Homebrew is doing 
> something special, I suggest you take a look at the configure options used by 
> the Homebrew formula.  If they are patching the sources, I recommend you skip 
> that since 3.8.1 should build on MacOS X without any patches.
> 
> Ben
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