Re: build fails on macOS

[Ben Abbott]

> On Oct 27, 2018, at 11:17 AM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 10/26/2018 05:46 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>> Subject: Re: build fails on macOS
>> From: Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
>> Date: 10/26/2018 05:45 PM
>> To: John Eaton <address@hidden>
>> CC: Ben Abbott <address@hidden>, Octave Maintainers <address@hidden>, 
>> Sebastian Schöps <address@hidden>
>> 
>> I now see a new problem when building docs.
>> 
>> doc/interpreter/plot.texi:6980: @ref reference to nonexistent node 
>> `XREFopenfig' (possibly involving @seealso)
>> make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/octave.info] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> 
> 
> Temporary problem.  Guillaume added a new function savefig which had openfig 
> in the seealso list, but openfig doesn't yet exist in Octave.  I just fixed 
> the documentation in this changeset to remove openfig 
> (https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/29eb60bd2e81).
> 
>> I’m also seeing a new problem with sundials during configure.
>> 
>> onfigure: WARNING: SUNDIALS NVECTOR serial library not found.  Solvers 
>> ode15i and ode15s will be disabled.
>> configure: WARNING: SUNDIALS IDA library not found.  Solvers ode15i and 
>> ode15s will be disabled.
>> 
> 
> Do you have those libraries installed?  I'm running on Linux, but don't 
> bother to install them so I get this message all the time.  If you need those 
> two particular solvers then you will need to install the libraries.  
> Otherwise, just carry on with life. 
> 
> —Rik

For some reason sundials worked before jwe’s changes, even though it was 
located in a non-standard location and I didn’t include the -L and -I info.. 
Now it is behaving as I’d expect. The easy fix was to add the proper -L and -I 
info. Now all works.

Ben