Re: safer way to use gnulib (for other MacOS X users)

[Ben Abbott]

On Wednesday, March 17, 2010, at 03:34PM, "John Swensen" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>On Mar 17, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Thomas Treichl wrote:
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>> Am 16.03.10 23:38, schrieb Ben Abbott:
>>> On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:03 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 16-Mar-2010, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> | The dependencies of lex.cc aren't too many, so it finished quickly. 
>>>> Except for the one failure I always get with data.cc, all tests pass.
>>>> |
>>>> | Thanks again!
>>>> 
>>>> OK, so now we finally have Octave+gnulib working on OS X, except that
>>>> we need to do something about the possibility of sigemptyset and
>>>> sigaddset being defined as preprocessor macros.
>>> 
>>> I've attached a diff for others who may be building on MacOS X.
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> Hi Ben,
>> 
>> I wasn't able to build a development snapshot for a very long time because 
>> of the gnulib problems. With your patch and a fresh gnulib checkout I get 
>> the following result on my 10.6 machine
>> 
>>  Summary:
>>    PASS   6374
>>    FAIL      0
>> 
>> So wow, thanks to all developers!
>> 
>>  Thomas
>
>Can one of the OSX users who have completed the build give the steps they 
>took?  I have been reading through the mailing list and got lost in all the 
>different things that have been attempted.  I just tried by using all the 
>dependencies supplied by fink and am getting a gfortran issue.  Is there a 
>reason that the Octave is complaining about the fink gfortran?
>
>It has been months since I have been able to do a recent build and am really 
>looking forward to working in OSX again, rather than a virtual machine with 
>Linux.
>
>John

John,

Using libtool prevents mixing gcc versions (the libraries conflict).

You'll need to install gfortran for you system's gcc. You can get one for 
Leopard or Snow Leopard at the link below.

    http://r.research.att.com/tools/

I've attached my notes on how I do my build.

Ben

Building_Octave_on_MacOSX_Using_Fink.txt
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