Re: Getting Octave to use Anaconda Python Environment

[Colin Macdonald]

On 18/04/16 09:21, Ben Abbott wrote:
> Octave’s symbolic toolbox is tricky to install on OS X. I’m confident it
> can be done, but haven’t yet done it myself. My difficulty is due to
> Fink’s python which is named “python2.7”. In order for symbolic-2.3.0
> toolbox’s configure process to use Fink’s python2.7, it is necessary to
> modify configure.ac …

I filed:

https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy/issues/412

I'm considering dumping all the autoconf stuff from Symbolic: we have
nothing to compile, all its used for is checking that Python and SymPy
are installed.  And it just seems to get in the way on Windows and
(apparently now) MacOS.

Colin