Re: building on macOS?

[Carlo De Falco]

> On 5 Nov 2018, at 03:41, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> I tried generating a txt file manually. No error.
> 
> function image_as_txt (d, nm)
>   fid = fopen (fullfile (d, [nm ".txt"]), "wt");
>   fputs (fid, "\n");
>   fputs (fid, "+---------------------------------+\n");
>   fputs (fid, "| Image unavailable in text mode. |\n");
>   fputs (fid, "+---------------------------------+\n");
>   fclose (fid);
> endfunction
> image_as_txt (‘./doc/interpreter/', 'foo')
> 
> Ben

Ben, 

I am still on HighSierra and I get something similar to you.

If I run make I get a failure :

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/bin/sh run-octave --norc --silent --no-history --path 
/Users/carlo/Documents/_Programmi/Miei/C/octave/build-default/../octave/doc/interpreter/
 --eval "geometryimages ('doc/interpreter/', 'delaunay', 'txt');"
fatal: caught signal Segmentation fault: 11 -- stopping myself...
make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/delaunay.txt] Segmentation fault: 11
make[2]: *** Deleting file `doc/interpreter/delaunay.txt'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
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If I try to run the same command as shown in the make output manually the 
command works :

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$ ./run-octave --no-gui
GNU Octave, version 5.0.0
Copyright (C) 2018 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type 'warranty'.

Octave was configured for "x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0".

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>> addpath (canonicalize_file_name ("../octave/doc/interpreter/"))
>> geometryimages ('doc/interpreter/', 'delaunay', 'txt')
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but then I get a segmentation fault when quitting Octave :

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>> exit
fatal: caught signal Segmentation fault: 11 -- stopping myself...
Segmentation fault: 11
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HTH,
c.