Re: Getting Octave to use Anaconda Python Environment

[Ben Abbott]

> On Apr 18, 2016, at 4:52 PM, Colin Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 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

I like the autoconf support. They allowed me to determine what depedencies were 
missing. The only problem for me was how to define $PYTHON. Can you modify 
configure to grab $PYTHON from the shell environment?

        setenv PYTON python2.7
        system ./configure

Ben