Re: Octave 4.4. on MacOS 10.12.6 with GUI anyone?

[Andrew Janke]

On 6/27/18 10:57 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> > On Jun 27, 2018, at 07:35, Andrew Janke <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/27/18 10:29 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> > > > On Jun 26, 2018, at 9:15 PM, AndrewJanke <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Sebastian Schöps wrote
> > > > > There will be a macOS disk image from Andrew any time soon, however, you
> > > > > may
> > > > > also have a look to https://www.schoeps.org/home/tag/octave/.
> > > > A beta version of the macOS DMG is out:
> > > > https://github.com/octave-app/octave-app/releases/download/untagged-4e9d0ab25492be932368/Octave-4.4.0-beta2.dmg
> > > >
> > > > Give that a try and let me know if you have any issues.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Andrew
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > >
> > > Have you looked into modifying the app to make it relocatable? i.e. able to run 
> > > from anywhere?
> > >
> > > Ben
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > I have. Unfortunately, that turns out to be quite difficult, because it depends 
> > on making builds of GCC and Qt (and all the other Octave dependencies) that are 
> > relocatable, which is no easy task, because they're not designed for that.
> >
> > Related issue: https://github.com/octave-app/octave-app-bundler/issues/2, which 
> > is a prerequisite for making Octave.app itself relocatable.
> >
> > Sorry.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
> I have a script that will make an app and it’s libs relocatable. With a list of 
> all binaries, all the binaries, they may also be relocated. However if there 
> are any hard coded paths, it will not work (maybe shell scripts and such?).
>
> I used it successfully in the past with Macports. I’ll dig up the script and 
> email it to you when I’m in front of my Mac.
>
> Ben
Definitely interested in that.

Also relevant on the Homebrew front (Octave.app is using Homebrew to 
install all the Octave dependencies):
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/4371
https://github.com/essandess/matryoshka-name-tool/blob/master/matryoshka_name_tool.py

Cheers,
Andrew