Paul,
On Apr 8, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Paul Kienzle wrote:
You could also build octave as an app.
I've looked at this approach in the past. This has been done for Gimp
and several other open source packages. The problem is the Voodoo
associated with the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. Setting the environmental
variable can cause problems. To build a self contained app, you have
to manually change the internal paths after building such that
everything is on a relative path (dylibs are on absolute paths by
default, run otool -L against a dylib). The library names change every
time a package is updated, so this is very difficult to automate.
Frankly, I hate messing with it, just as much as Frameworks get in the
way to a point where I'd rather rebuild a library than build against a
Framework installed by the OS. I gave up on the app approach since I
have things working in the classical *NIX style on the command line.