Re: Octave 3.6.4-rc2 release candidate available for ftp

[Jean-Francois Cardoso]

On 2/12/13 5:22 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 02/12/2013 07:01 AM, JFCardoso wrote:
> > On Mac OSX 10.7.5,
> > it builds fine until it reaches:
> >
> > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `.DOCSTRINGS', needed by `all-local'.
> > Stop.
>
> How did you run configure?  With a normal build, you should not need
> to build the documentation from a tarball release.
>
> But no rule to make the .DOCSTRINGS target is odd in any case.  I'll
> see if I can understand how that can happen.  Knowing the arguments
> you gave to configure will help in any case.


Sorry I forgot to include that.
Build script appended.
Cheers, JFC


octver=3.6.4-rc2

rm -fR octave-$octver
tar xzvf octave-$octver.tar.gz
cd octave-$octver
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH  ## where gfortran and hand-made libs are.

export LDFLAGS="-arch i386 -L/usr/local/lib"  ## this is -L, not -I so the  
README.MacOSX indication is wrong
export CFLAGS="-arch i386 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/readline"
export FFLAGS="$CFLAGS"  ## apparently he -ff2c option is not needed here since it is 
passed anyway: see octave_config_info ("FFLAGS")
export CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"  ## this seems necessary but not mentionned in 
README.MacOSX
export CPPFLAGS="$CFLAGS -D_REENTRANT -D__LISTS__"

./configure \
    --prefix=/Users/cardoso/octave/octave-$octver \
    --disable-docs \
    --with-magick=ImageMagick \
    --without-qhull         \
    --without-hdf5         \
    --without-glpk          \
    --without-curl          \
    --without-opengl        \
    --without-framework-opengl \
    --without-qrupdate      \
    --without-amd           \
    --without-camd          \
    --without-colamd        \
    --without-ccolamd       \
    --without-cholmod       \
    --without-cxsparse      \
    --without-umfpack

make -j4
make check