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Update Octave Wiki for Mac OS X Build Instructions


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Update Octave Wiki for Mac OS X Build Instructions
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:30:09 -0500

On  3-Jan-2010, Todd Rovito wrote:

| Hello,
|     I would like to help with Octave development so I am getting
| familiar with the project and trying to see where my skill set fits
| in.  My first task was trying to get Octave to compile which took some
| time to figure out but I now have it compiling and running on Mac OS
| X.  I documented the build process in a script file here:
|    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3649012/Octave-Build/create-3.2.3.sh
| 
| I started with the build script from the Octave-Forge site that is
| used to build Octave.app.  The Octave-forge script didn't work on 10.6
| so I made some modifications.
| 
| The first thing I would like to do is update the wiki Mac OS X
| instructions here:
|           http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForMac
| 
| because the instructions don't work for Snow Leopard 10.6 and version
| 3.2.3 of Octave.   Is it possible for me to get the password to the
| wiki so I can make the change?
| 
| If anybody has any notes/pointers/documentation they want to send to
| me on building Octave for Snow Leopard I would be glad to include on
| the Wiki or in the build script.

I think it would be better to have this kind of information in a
README file that is distributed with the Octave sources rather than on
a web page.

jwe


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