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From: | Marius Schamschula |
Subject: | Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki |
Date: | Sun, 8 Apr 2007 06:44:21 -0500 |
On Apr 8, 2007, at 5:06 AM, Matthias Brennwald wrote:
I also had a look at the Mac installation page a couple of days ago, and noticed that there was no mention of MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/>. They currently have octave 2.9.9 and octave-forge 2006.07.09. Fundamentally it is possible to build octave as a .pkg or .mpkg for Apple's Installer.app. I did this several years ago. I later pulled this .mpkg due to the duplication of effort with my normal .tar.gz based install system. The real problem is coming up with the file list. You can't just package up everything in /usr/local, so you need to build into a separate tree. This is a bit of a chore, since you have to add a lot of configuration arguments and environmental variables. My coworkers at Boston University use this approach for CISM_DX - which currently includes octave 2.1.72 - see <http://www.bu.edu/cism/cismdx/>. Alternately, you can use a utility to find changed files, such as afick. However, it may miss files that were not overwritten during the install process. Note that MacPorts can build .pkg files. This may be the simplest approach. However, it installs everything into /opt/local... Marius -- Marius Schamschula Webmaster The Huntsville Macintosh Users Group webmaster at hmug dot org marius at schamschula dot com |
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