Re: Building Octave without xcode

[Søren Hauberg]

lør, 25 12 2010 kl. 12:17 -0600, skrev Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
> Is it impossible to build Octave without Xcode? Ben just pushed a
> patch (11410:2df163be223e) for README.MacOS which suggests installing
> Xcode in order to build Octave. This breaks with the GNU coding
> standards:
> 
>      http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/References.html
> 
> There's nothing wrong with helping people install Octave on Mac OS X,
> but we should be able to recommend a method that doesn't depend on
> installing non-free software beyond the core OS and libraries.

I think we should document what we actually know. If the Mac developers
we have happen to use this solution then I think that's what we should
document. Doing Free Software development is inherently difficult on a
non-free OS, so some compromises need to be made. I think the Mac people
in this list should be the ones making that compromise.

Just me to ører...
Søren

P.S. This reminds me of the time we lost the MSVC build; something I
found quite sad.