Re: Building/Installing 3.8.1 on OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)

[Clark Dunson]

Thanks Ben!

I'll let you know how it goes.

On Mar 21, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

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> On Mar 21, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Clark Dunson <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Hey everybody!
>> 
>> I really want to experience this 3.8!  I am a long-time matlab/gnu 
>> developer, and thought I'd build it.
>> 
>> But I have some sort of 'make install' location problem as fftw 3.3.4 is 
>> built and installed but octave:
>> 
>> configure: WARNING: FFTW3F library not found.  The slower FFTPACK library 
>> will be used instead.
>> 
>> and also SuiteSparse-4.2.1:
>> 
>> configure: WARNING: COLAMD library not found.  This will result in some lack 
>> of functionality for sparse matrices.
>> etc., I'll spare you the rest.
>> 
>> I have experimented with various blah blah blah:
>> 
>> ./configure --enable-shared
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared
>> 
>> but no joy yet!  I usually end up succeeding at these matters - eventually.  
>> But I though a sanity check would be smart.  Should I push on my build, use 
>> homebrew?  
>> 
>> What will get me going quickest with Snow Leopard and Octave 3.8?
>> 
>> THANKS!
>> 
>> Clark
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> I've been building Octave using MacPorts for the dependencies for several 
> years.  I recommend you first build Octave using Homebrew (that will install 
> all the necessary dependencies) and then uninstall Octave. It looks like the 
> formula is at the link below.
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> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-science/blob/master/octave.rb
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> After that you can try to configure Octave.  Just in case Homebrew is doing 
> something special, I suggest you take a look at the configure options used by 
> the Homebrew formula.  If they are patching the sources, I recommend you skip 
> that since 3.8.1 should build on MacOS X without any patches.
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> Ben
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