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

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 12, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:

> 
> 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

3.2.3 won't have a problem. However, for 3.2, if you print to any device format 
other than eps, ghostscript is required.

Ben