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

[Clark Dunson]

Okay I got unstuck by removing all of automake & autoconf from /usr/bin.

But the octave build chokes on this:

configure.ac:30: warning: macro `AM_SILENT_RULES' not found in library
configure.ac:1282: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected 
in body

a blithering lot of these is followed by this:

configure.ac:1282: the top level
configure.ac:48: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_SILENT_RULES
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.

kaput.  Versions: autoconf = 2.69, automake = 1.14.1

Anyone conquer this already?

THANKS

Clark

On Mar 24, 2014, at 8:53 PM, Clark Dunson wrote:

> It's true Ben.  Ports has now been removed (see steps below).  I finished the 
> dependencies for gnuplot, it needed both '$ brew install lua' and '$ brew 
> install pdflib-lite'.  Now I am in the Octave build itself. 
> 
> Octave build is stuck with:
> 
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
> configure.ac:30: warning: macro `AM_SILENT_RULES' not found in library
> configure.ac:21: error: Autoconf version 2.62 or higher is required
> configure.ac:21: the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 63
> aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 63
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 63
> 
> brew version of autoconf = 2.69, automake = 1.14.1
> apple version of aurtoconf = 2.16, automake = 1.10
> 
> Still working this one, but at least I am in the real octave build now!
> 
> THANKS AGAIN
> 
> Clark
> 
> 
> 
> Here are the steps I used to remove ports:
> 
> 1. $ sudo port -fp uninstall installed
> 
> 2. $ sudo rm -rf \
>    /opt/local \
>    /Applications/DarwinPorts \
>    /Applications/MacPorts \
>    /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \
>    /Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg \
>    /Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \
>    /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \
>    /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \
>    /Library/Tcl/macports1.0 \
>    ~/.macports
> 
> 
> On Mar 24, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 24, 2014, at 2:45 PM, Clark Dunson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mar 21, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 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)
>> 
>> Using Macports, I have the following dependencies.
>> 
>> lua @5.2.2_1 (active)
>> texlive-luatex @30790_0+doc (active)
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> My lua is installed in the same location as is yours.
>> 
>>      which lua
>>      /opt/local/bin/lua
>> 
>> It looks to me as if you have Macports installed?  I'd avoid using two 
>> package managers at the same time (i.e. either use Homebrew, or Macports, 
>> but not both).
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
>> 
>> 
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