Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 12, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 12, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:
>> 
>>> I am reformatting a laptop right now so that I can start fresh. We've 
>>> identified the following dependencies which we believe need to be 
>>> satisfied, and I'm going to test each of these assumptions.
>>> 
>>> - Xcode (provides gcc which supports OSX-style universal binary executables 
>>> and libraries)
>>> - gfortran (from AT&T, same capabilities as above)
>>> - GNU sed, installed to --prefix/usr which overwrites the 
>>> Apple/BSD/whatever sed was already there
>>> - pcre, simply because the version provided with OSX doesn't provide 
>>> pcre.h, because one particular regex wasn't found, but I think this may 
>>> have been fixed
>>> - flex?
>>> - postscript?
>>> 
>>> Campbell
>> 
>> By "postscript", do you mean "ghostscript"?
>> 
>> Also, I recommend you include "gnuplot".
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Thanks, yes, gnuplot should be on the list. Neither ghostscript nor 
> postscript should be on the list, actually - they weren't required before.
> 
> Regarding PCRE: the offending regex is still present, and ./configure still 
> doesn't require PCRE (it allows you to build, and the error you get is when 
> you try to print something, and it's a completely non-descriptive error). 
> What would I need to do to submit a patch changing the behaviour of configure?
> 
> Campbell

Be aware, that without ghostscript you'll not be able to print.

I don't know how to change the behavior of configure for the non-pcre regex.

Ben