Re: GNU Octave 3.4.0 Released (Mac OSX?)

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 10, 2011, at 8:38 PM, Vic Norton wrote:

> On Feb 10, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 10, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Vic Norton wrote:
>> 
>>> On Feb 10, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Vic Norton wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Any advice on how to install Octave 3.4.0 on Mac OSX 10.6.6 would be 
>>>> greatly appreciated. I'm running the last "octave.app" (version 3.2.3). In 
>>>> the past I have not had good luck installing Octave from source files.
>>> 
>>> OK, once again I tried to install Octave from source---with the usual lack 
>>> of success.  First I installed the latest version of Xcode. Then I 
>>> installed Gnu Fortran 4.2.4 for Mac OS X 10.6. I even installed the latest 
>>> Gnu sed. In the end,
>>> 
>>> $ tar xzf octave-3.4.0.tar.gz
>>> $ cd octave-3.4.0
>>> $ mkdir build && cd build
>>> $ ../configure  --enable-shared --disable-static
>>> 
>>> only produced
>>> 
>>> configure: error: A BLAS library was detected but found incompatible
>>>                 with your Fortran 77 compiler settings.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> At least for me, compiling Octave from source files on a Macintosh is 
>>> utterly hopeless.
>>> 
>>> As I said before, any help/advice would be very much appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Vic
>> 
>> Please see the "README.MacOS" ... some updates are also available ...
>> 
>>      http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/a754c2d8a13f/README.MacOS
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
> 
> Thanks for the advice, Ben. My problem is with the BLAS library.
> 
> Unfortunately the directives
> 
>  * blas/lapack
>   - For 64 bit, a non-Xcode 64 bit Atlas may be used. Alternatively,
>     a wrapper for Apple's vecLib framework may be used.
> 
>        
> https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2011-January/022541.html
> 
> don't help. I can't figure out how to install an appropriate BLAS library.
> 
> I did try
> 
>   export FC="/usr/bin/gfortran"
>   export CFLAGS="-arch x86_64"
>   export FFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
>   export CPPFLAGS="$CFLAGS -D_REENTRANT -D__LISTS__"
>   export LDFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
>   ../configure --disable-readline --disable-docs
> 
> as per your README.MacOS source, but the same old problem repeats itself:
> 
>   configure: error: A BLAS library was detected but found incompatible
>   with your Fortran 77 compiler settings.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vic

For now, if you're not able to install a 64 bit blas or able to apply the 
blaswrapper, then I recommend building the 32 bit version.

We hope to be able to have Octave automatically work around Apple's 64bit BLAS 
bug, but that is a work in progress.

Ben

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