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Re: symbolic toolbox


From: Paul Kienzle
Subject: Re: symbolic toolbox
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:24:21 -0500


On Feb 18, 2004, at 9:58 PM, Henri Mollet wrote:

I would love to have a symbolic toolbox. I looked at
the files and they are mostly .cc source files and
need to be compiled to produce .oct files that can be
used at octave prompt (I hope I got this correct by
now). Please tell me, if I had octave-forge installed,
would I still have to compile each .cc file?

If you have all parts of octave-forge installed, then you
would have the symbolic toolbox.

However, the configure operation in octave-forge
checks for necessary libraries and doesn't bother
compiling those parts for which it does not have
libraries.  Given that I don't see GiNaC on fink or
darwinports, I suspect the octave-forge packages
won't have symbolic capabilities.  I don't see the
CLN package either, but at least gmp is there.

I would love to be able to say that this is just a matter
of recompiling the cln and ginac packages for OS X,
but in practice ports to OS X needs a lot of coddling.
Perhaps we will be lucky and can build static libraries
for cln and ginac, which hopefully will shield us from
the worst of dylib madness.

Paul Kienzle
address@hidden



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