Re: Mountain Lion build

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 21, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Sep 21, 2012, at 5:46 PM, Robinson, Melvin D wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I get errors building Octave from sources on Mountain Lion.  The compilation 
>> ultimately craters with this error:
>> ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[3]: *** [liboctinterp.la] Error 1
>> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>> 
>> Earlier in the build I see the following error:
>> 
>> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>>  "std::_List_node_base::_M_transfer(std::_List_node_base*, 
>> std::_List_node_base*)", referenced from:
>>      std::list<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, 
>> std::allocator<char> >, std::allocator<std::basic_string<char, 
>> std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > 
>> >::_M_transfer(std::_List_iterator<std::basic_string<char, 
>> std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >, 
>> std::_List_iterator<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, 
>> std::allocator<char> > >, std::_List_iterator<std::basic_string<char, 
>> std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >) in 
>> liboctave-value.a(octave_value_liboctave_value_la-ov-class.o)
>> 
>> I don't really know what the problem could be.  
>> g++ -v gives:
>> butterfly:octave melrobin$ g++ -v
>> Using built-in specs.
>> COLLECT_GCC=g++
>> COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/opt/local/libexec/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin12/4.5.4/lto-wrapper
>> Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12
>> Configured with: ../gcc-4.5.4/configure --prefix=/opt/local 
>> --build=x86_64-apple-darwin12 
>> --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,fortran,java 
>> --libdir=/opt/local/lib/gcc45 --includedir=/opt/local/include/gcc45 
>> --infodir=/opt/local/share/info --mandir=/opt/local/share/man 
>> --datarootdir=/opt/local/share/gcc-4.5 --with-local-prefix=/opt/local 
>> --with-libiconv-prefix=/opt/local --with-system-zlib --disable-nls 
>> --program-suffix=-mp-4.5 
>> --with-gxx-include-dir=/opt/local/include/gcc45/c++/ --with-gmp=/opt/local 
>> --with-mpfr=/opt/local --with-mpc=/opt/local --with-ppl=/opt/local 
>> --enable-stage1-checking --disable-multilib --with-as=/opt/local/bin/as 
>> --with-ld=/opt/local/bin/ld --with-ar=/opt/local/bin/ar 
>> --with-bugurl=https://trac.macports.org/newticket --enable-lto 
>> --with-pkgversion='MacPorts gcc45 4.5.4_5'
>> Thread model: posix
>> gcc version 4.5.4 (MacPorts gcc45 4.5.4_5) 
>> 
>> Any ideas?  The error seems to come from standard C++ containers.
> 
> Please tell us what sources you are attempting to building (what version) and 
> what options you specified when running configure.
> 
> I don't know if any one has built Octave on Mountain Lion yet.  If you are 
> able to install octave-devel using MacPorts you might take a look at the port 
> file for some hints as to what the maintainer has done to enable it to build.
> 
> Ben

I'm running Lion, and use MacPorts to satisfy Octave's dependencies.  I use the 
attached script to configure octave.  To build octave the first time ...

        ./bootstrap
        ./macports_configure.sh
        make

Does that work for you?

Ben

macports_configure.sh
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