Re: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite

[Sunil Shah]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Sunil Shah <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Sunil Shah <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

*** Sunil, please respond at the bottom of the email so that others can read along after this thread is archived ***

On Apr 27, 2016, at 8:52 PM, Sunil Shah <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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
>> Scanning package description files..........
>> 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
>
> Thanks, Alex and Ben.
>
> Here is the state of my installed packages.
>
> fink list -i -t gcc5
>
> Scanning package description files..........
> 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
>
> Scanning package description files..........
> Information about 9087 packages read in 1 seconds.
>  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

I see that you already have the required gcc5 packages installed. If you have also run "fink install octave382-atlas-qtmac-dev” then you have all the dependencies covered.

Ben

Ben, 

I did run your steps 5) and 6) - i.e. installed and removed  octave382-atlas-qtmac-dev.

I take it I do not need to update gcc5-compiler and gcc5-shlibs to a newer version.

Sunil 

Ben,

On step 9) I did have to remove the ^M from the file.  

When I ran it, I got the following error:

./configure --prefix=$PREFIX \ 

configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target

configure: WARNING: invalid host type:  

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /sw/bin/ginstall -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /sw/bin/gmkdir -p

checking for gawk... gawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking whether make supports nested variables... yes

checking whether UID '501' is supported by ustar format... yes

checking whether GID '20' is supported by ustar format... yes

checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar

checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes

checking build system type... config.sub: missing argument

Try `config.sub --help' for more information.

configure: error: /bin/sh build-aux/config.sub   failed

Sunil

Found the (embarrassing) error in removing ^M.