Re: Can't install octave-forge packages in a 32-bit OS X build, but can in a 64-bit one

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 6, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

> On 11/6/11 11:05 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> On Nov 6, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/5/11 5:08 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 5, 2011, at 4:57 PM, c. wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 5 Nov 2011, at 21:54, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> That might be worth a shot, though on 10.6 fink's flex-devel and the
>>>>>> system's /usr/bin/flex are at the same version, so that leaves the
>>>>>> ancient 2.5.4a from our "flex" package.
>>>>> 
>>>>> No, they aren't, although the version number is the same, the version 
>>>>> shiped with the system has been patched by apple.
>>>>> c.
>>>> 
>>>> Now that you mention that, I also remember we encountered that before. 
>>>> Looking through the mail-list, I think the offending patch was the one 
>>>> below.
>>>> 
>>>>    
>>>> http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/flex/flex-24.1/patches/scanEOF.diff
>>>> 
>>>> Ben
>>> 
>>> In any case, I played around with different the available flex options
>>> (fink's flex, flex-devel [which normally has to be explicitly used
>>> because it's out of the PATH], or the system's flex) with no change in
>>> the results.
>>> 
>>> Alex
>> 
>> I reviewed some old emails.  I expect problems if autogen.sh is run using 
>> Apple's version. When building the docs, I had encountered errors and 
>> warning such as ...
>> 
>>      warning: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 92, column 2
>> 
>>      error: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 164, column 2
>> 
>> In any event, I updated by Fink packages, and am still able to build octave 
>> using my build script. Over the next few days I'll try modifying my script 
>> to reflect the differences in Fink's info file.
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Well and good, but can you install octave-forge packages?  _That's_ the
> problem I'm having.
> 
> Octave _builds_, with minimal warnings, for me.  And the builds look
> pretty much the same on i386, where pkg won't install anything, and on
> x86_64, where pkg works.

I plan to build using a script that closely follows the Fink info file, and 
check that the cs-list problem is absent.

Once that works, I'll modify the octave343.info file and build and install with 
that. 

At that point, I'll be able to try to install a package.

My builds are slow (> 1hr) and can only try in my spare time. I expect my 
progress will be slow.

Ben