Re: MXE Octave: "... has no symbols" warning under Mac OS X

[c.]

On 23 Sep 2013, at 11:27, Anirudha Bose <address@hidden> wrote:

> I don't know about how much Octave is maintained in MacPorts. The stable 
> release of octave in Macports is 3.2.4, while the development snapshot of 
> Octave is 3.6.4. I may be getting it wrong. If a new version of Octave is 
> released, it is very simple and quick to build it for Windows or Mac OS X. 

If the problem were only about Octave packages in MacPorts and/or Fink being 
outdated/unmaintained (which they are not, as you could infer by other threads 
on Octave mailing lists where the maintainers of such packages are quite active 
...) a correct approach would be
to collaborate with the package maintainers to bring them up-to-date.

I suspect the real benefit of your approach lies elsewhere ...

For example, providing a self-contained application bundle that does not depend 
on any package distribution system, would be more 
consistent with the expectations of the average OSX user, but I am not sure 
that is the point here either ...

> The aim is get reproducible builds without any/much user intervention.

Of course, that is the purpose of any package distribution system.

c.