Re: [Patch] Shared build on OS X

[Paul Kienzle]

On Feb 14, 2004, at 10:42 PM, Per Persson wrote:

> On Feb 15, 2004, at 01:08, John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> > | Octave (CVS as of 2004-02-11) compiles and runs testcases without
> > | errors (# of expected passes 1199)
> > | on Mac OS X 10.3.3 using
> > | gcc 3.3 20030304 (Apple build 1495) and
> > | g77 3.3.2
>
> Forgot:
> ./configure --enable-shared --enable-dl --without-hdf5

Can you use --disable-static as well?
Why --without-hdf5?
Is it unavailable for 10.3, or do you just not have it installed?

> ...
> Good news:
> Octave passed all tests
> Hello.oct works

Great!

I noticed a while ago that oct files are very large,
presumably because they each link in the entire libstdc++.
Is there any magic we can use to turn a standard
libstdc++.a in libstdc++.dylib and save us several hundred
kilobytes per octave file?

> Compiling octave-forge will probably expose the remaining issues.

I would appreciate an easy to install binary that I can
point my users to which provides octave, octave-forge
and gnuplot.  Separate binaries for 10.2 and 10.3
if necessary.  Preferably in a way that does not require
additional infrastructure such as fink or darwinports.
Hosting it beside the windows package at octave-forge
is okay unless there is some more standard place that
users go to find software.  Any idea how difficult it would
be to set up such a package?

Thanks,

Paul Kienzle
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