Re: Compiling Octave for OSX 10.6.x - feedback

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 1, 2011, at 7:05 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Mar 1, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Rudolf Widmer-Schnidrig wrote:
> 
>> On 01.03.11 13:54, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>>> On Feb 27, 2011, at 7:30 AM, Rudolf Widmer-Schnidrig wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear List,
>>>> 
>>>> I just compiled Octave 3.4.0 on OSX 10.6.6 following the instructions on
>>>> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/952e52dda82e/README.MacOS
>>>> 
>>>> I used fink to build a 32bit executable.
>>>> 
>>>> What I would like to add to section 2.3.1 is that in order to print to a 
>>>> PostScript file
>>>> I had to also install the packages
>>>> 
>>>> epstool
>>>> transfig
>>>> pstoedit
>>>> 
>>>> (sudo fink install epstool    etc...)
>>>> 
>>>>   thanks for the great piece of software.
>>>> 
>>>>                         -Ruedi
>>> Thanks for the feedback. Regarding transfig, it is a virtual package for me 
>>> (it is bundled with xfig).
>>> 
>>> $ fink list transfig
>>> Information about 10003 packages read in 3 seconds.
>>> p   transfig                             [virtual package]
>>>   transfig-epsfig      3.2.5-1008      Convert xfig objs with -graphicx 
>>> (-epsfig is deprecated)
>>> i   transfig-graphicx    3.2.5-1008      Convert xfig objs with -graphicx 
>>> (-epsfig is deprecated)
>>>   transfig323          3.2.3d-4        Converts xfig objs to various 
>>> graphics formats (old ve
>>> 
>>> Did you install transfig without installing xfig?
>>> 
>>> Ben
>>> 
>> 
>> Dear Ben, yes - I installed transfig without installing xfig.       -Ruedi
> 
> Ok. I'll assume that either xfig or transfig need to be installed.
> 
> Thanks
> Ben

I've pushed a change.

        http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/c5a2ad173d4d

Ben