Re: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite

[Sunil Shah]

Thanks, Alex and Ben. 

Here is the state of my installed packages.  

fink list -i -t gcc5 

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Information about 9087 packages read in 2 seconds.

(i) gcc5-compiler 5.3.0-1 Compiler Binaries for gcc5

(i) gcc5-shlibs 5.3.0-1 Shared libraries for gcc5

 p liboctave382-gcc5 [virtual package]

fink list -i -t make

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 i automake1.14-core 1.14.1-2 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator

 i automake1.15 1.15-1 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator

 i automake1.15-core 1.15-1 GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator

 p automaken [virtual package]

(i) cmake 3.5.1-1 Cross-platform Make

 i extutils-makemaker-pm5182 7.06-1 Perl module to create a module Makefile

 p extutils-makemaker-pm5182-bin [virtual package]

 p locale-maketext-lexicon-pm5182 [virtual package]

 p locale-maketext-pm5182 [virtual package]

 p locale-maketext-simple-pm5182 [virtual package]

Questions: 

1) Since I do not have fink make, should I install it before the next steps?

2) Should I install / update gcc5-compiler and gcc5-shlibs ?  

Sunil

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Apr 27, 2016, at 7:58 PM, Sunil Shah <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Apr 15, 2016, at 11:07 AM, Sunil Shah <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> Can you post how to build 4.0.1 on the latest Yosemite release using Fink?  I have been using Fink octave packages with altas.
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> I’ll assume you are using the released sources (you could also build from the developer’s sources).
>
> (1) Goto the sources at https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html. You may be prompted to login. Just select “guest” and skit the username/password.
> (2) When a Finder window opens with the tar-balls, locate octave-4.0.1.tar.gz and copy it to the location where you’d like to build octave.
> (3) Double click on the archive. It will unpack in to a folder called octave-4.0.1.
> (4) Place the files attached to this email in the folder.
> (5) To ensure you have all the needed dependencies, open a Terminal window and enter "fink install octave382-atlas-qtmac-dev”
> (6) You’ll need to remove Fink’s Octave before trying to run the one you’ll compile (“fink remove octave382-atlas-qtmac-dev”)
> (7) My scripts assume you have gcc5 installed, “fink install gcc5”
> (8) From the Terminal window cd into octave-4.0.1 and type “chmod 755 ./fink_*.sh”. This marks the two scripts as executable.
> (9) From the Terminal window type “./fink_configure_octave_noX11_v1.sh” to configure the octave build. This might take a few minutes. If any errors are encountered, please tell us what the error.
> (10) Build Octave by typing “./fink_make_octave.sh”. If any errors occur, please tell us what the error was. My script configured octave's build was configured to install into /sw/local. This is done to ensure that it doesn’t conflict with anything else.
> (11) To install octave type “make install” in a Terminal window and from the octave-4.0.1 folder.
> (12) If you decide to uninstall, type “make uninstall” for the octave-4.0.1 folder where you build octave.
> (13) To run octave, type “/sw/local/bin/octave &” from a Terminal window.
>
> Once all the above is completed, we can help you setup an icon to click on to launch Octave.
>
> Ben
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> In following your instructions on octave 4.0.1 on fink, it worked fine till step 7).
>
> When I issued fink install gcc5, it failed.  I saw that on fink mailing list, others had a similar problem (though for gcc 5.2.0.2).  The latest gcc5 in fink is gcc 5.3.0.1.  So I am trying the remedy in the mailing list, to remove fink's make and retrying gcc5 install.
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/message/34537356/
>
> I suppose if that works, should I reinstall fink make before proceeding with your steps 8)-12) ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sunil

Opps, I actually don’t have gcc5 installed :-(

I do have gcc5-compiler & gcc5-shlibs installed.

$ fink list gcc5
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Information about 9327 packages read in 68 seconds.
     gcc5                                            5.3.0-1                             GNU Compiler Collection Version 5
 i   gcc5-compiler                                   5.3.0-1                             Compiler Binaries for gcc5
 i   gcc5-shlibs                                     5.3.0-1                             Shared libraries for gcc5
     liboctave364-gcc5                                                                   [virtual package]
     liboctave364-gcc5-dev                                                               [virtual package]
     liboctave382-gcc5                                                                   [virtual package]
     liboctave382-gcc5-dev                                                               [virtual package]

So (7) should be …

(7) My scripts assume you have gfortran from gcc5 installed, “fink install gcc5-compiler gcc5-shlibs”

You should be able to pick up from (7) and continue (you don’t need repeat the earlier steps).

Ben