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Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot
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Richard Campbell |
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Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot |
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Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:14:11 -0500 |
On Feb 12, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 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
>
>
Actually I can print to an .eps file just fine on Snow Leopard without
Ghostscript, whether I'm using the 3.2.3 precompiled distribution or 3.4.0 from
source on this machine.
I just want to modify configure to change PCRE from being optional to required,
so that ./configure fails if it doesn't find pcre.h instead of just building
anyway. Not trying to fix the specific regex problem.
Campbell
- Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot, Richard Campbell, 2011/02/12
- Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot, Ben Abbott, 2011/02/12
- Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot, Richard Campbell, 2011/02/12
- Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot, Ben Abbott, 2011/02/12
- Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot,
Richard Campbell <=
- Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot, Ben Abbott, 2011/02/12
- Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot, Richard Campbell, 2011/02/12
- Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot, John W. Eaton, 2011/02/12
- Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot, Richard Campbell, 2011/02/12
- Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot, John W. Eaton, 2011/02/12
- Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot, Richard Campbell, 2011/02/13
Re: Building Octave-3.4.x from source on OSX, reboot, Richard Campbell, 2011/02/12