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Installing Octave 2.9.9 on a Mac


From: Matthias Brennwald
Subject: Installing Octave 2.9.9 on a Mac
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:03:14 +0100

Dear all,

after the recent talk on the Octave help list about installing 2.9.9 on Macs I thought I'd give it a try, too. Since it seems a less-than- optimal idea to combine the HPC binary with the HMUG version of Octave forge I tried the following:


1. Install the HMUG version of Octave 2.9.9.
I downloaded the archive from http://www.hmug.org/pub/MacOS_X/BSD/ Applications/Math/octave/octave-2.9.9-2-osx4-ppc.tar.gz and tried to install it according to the instructions at http://www.hmug.org/pub/ MacOS_X/BSD/Applications/Math/octave/README.octave-2.9.9-2.osx4- ppc.html . That failed miserably:

Pizza:~/Desktop mbrennwa$ mv octave-2.9.9 /tmp
Pizza:~/Desktop mbrennwa$ sudo make install
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.


2. Compiling from sources.
I downloaded the sources from ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/ bleeding-edge/octave-2.9.9.tar.gz and tried to install it according to the instructions in INSTALL:

Pizza:~/Desktop/octave-2.9.9 mbrennwa$ ./configure
....lots of stuff here....
checking for rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout in -lreadline... no
configure: WARNING: I need GNU Readline 4.2 or later
configure: error: this is fatal unless you specify --disable-readline

I have readline installed from Fink.


Can someone help me sort this out?

Also, what needs to happen to make Octave 2.9 appear on Fink? Fink is just way more convenient than the above...


Matthias


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Matthias Brennwald
Office: Eawag, CH 8600 Dübendorf, +41 / (0)44 823 55 26
Lab: ETH, CH 8092 Zürich, 41 / (0)44 632 09 39
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