Re: PCRE library requirement

[Richard Campbell]

On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:17 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 31-Jan-2011, Richard Campbell wrote:
> 
> | There is no package manager for this operating system, therefore, no
> | way to install *-dev. I can easily build and install PCRE from
> | source, if necessary, which gives me the required header file.
> | 
> | I am aware of Macports and Fink, third party package managers and
> | 'port' systems that have a truly horrifying effect on the operating
> | system. OSX has been POSIX for as long as it's existed, and has been
> | Single UNIX Specification since 2007, so there shouldn't be any need
> | for third party package managers, and Octave certainly shouldn't
> | assume they're present. Most projects (including all dependencies
> | I've installed so far for Octave) compile on OSX from source without
> | any funny business.
> 
> Octave does not assume the presence of any package manager to satisfy
> its dependencies.  I think Rik might have forgotten that you are using
> OS X without a package system, and the typical problem we see when a
> library is present but the header files are not is that there is some
> missing -dev package.
> 
> jwe

I know, I know, but it keeps coming up. I'm highly motivated to get this 
working in such a way that I can sit down at any Mac, download the Octave 
source, type ./configure, have it list exactly which dependencies I need to 
satisfy (as few as possible), and have a working Octave in a short time.

Campbell