Re: GNU Octave 3.4.0 Released (Mac OSX?)

[Vic Norton]

It's hopeless, Ben. I tried

   export CFLAGS="-m32"
   export FFLAGS="-m32 -ff2c"
   export CPPFLAGS="-m32 -D_REENTRANT"
   export LDFLAGS="-m32"
   ./configure --disable-readline --disable-docs
   make

At least I didn't get

   configure: error: A BLAS library was detected but found
   incompatible with your Fortran 77 compiler settings.

from the configure step, but make produced

   grep: /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory
   /usr/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory
   libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libiconv.la' is not a valid libtool archive
   make[3]: *** [liboctinterp.la] Error 1
   make[2]: *** [check] Error 2
   make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
   make: *** [check] Error 2

There is certainly nothing that looks like 'libiconv.la' in /usr/lib/.

I guess I'll stick with Octave 3.2.3 for the next few years, until some guru 
compiles a Mac binary of a more recent version.

Thanks for your help!

Regards,

Vic

On Feb 10, 2011, at 8:45 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> 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
> 
> p.s. please "reply-all", and respond at the bottom so that those arriving 
> late can follow along.
>