Re: Octave 4.0 on Mac 10.10

[Marius Schamschula]

On Mar 1, 2015, at 10:44 PM, Carlo De Falco <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On 28 Feb 2015, at 16:54, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Opps. I had been using gcc on Mavericks. I expect I switched to clang when I 
>> upgraded to Yosemite (which never worked for me).
>> 
>> I think Carlo is still able to build the default tip on Mavericks and using 
>> Macports. Perhaps he can confirm the comment on how he configure's Octave.
> 
> Yes, I am using macports but I have to patch a few portfiles to make it work.
> In particular I have to fix the Qscintilla version at 2.7.2.
> Most other changes are to make sure that packages that do not have 
> a gcc49 variant are built with gcc rather than clang.
> It has been my intention for a long while to document all those changes 
> in detail, but I never got time to do it.
> 
> Once the dependencies are in place I configure with:
> 
> ../octave/configure                                    \
>    CC=gcc                                             \
>    CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -m64"                            \
>    CPPFLAGS="-D_THREAD_SAFE -I/opt/local/include"     \
>    LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib -m64 "                   \
>    CXX=g++                                            \
>    CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -m64"                          \
>    F77=gfortran                                       \
>    FFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -m64"                            \
>    LLVM_CONFIG=/opt/local/bin/llvm-config-mp-3.4      \
>    --with-lapack="-llapack -latlas -lgfortran"        \
>    --with-blas="-lcblas -lf77blas -latlas -lgfortran" \
>    --prefix=/opt/octave/4.1                           \
>    --enable-gui                                       \
>    --disable-jit                                      \
>    --disable-java                                     \
>    --with-framework-carbon                            \
>    --with-arpack                                      \
>    --enable-docs                                      \
>    --with-opengl                                      \
>    --without-x                                        \
>    --enable-link-all-dependencies
> 
> I don't even remeber the reason for some of the flags, 
> I guess many were inherited from Ben's examples.
> 
>> Ben
> c.

Last night I did a bit more test compiling. I ran into the well known issue 
with osmesa, so I disabled it. Apparently the MacPorts install of mesa +osmesa 
does not install a consistent set of header files.

Now I’m dealing with the following issue:

Making all in libgui
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-am
  CXX      src/m-editor/src_libgui_src_la-file-editor-tab.lo
In file included from ../libgnu/stdio.h:43:0,
                 from ../libgnu/wchar.h:71,
                 from /opt/local/include/gcc48/c++/cwchar:44,
                 from /opt/local/include/gcc48/c++/bits/postypes.h:40,
                 from /opt/local/include/gcc48/c++/bits/char_traits.h:40,
                 from /opt/local/include/gcc48/c++/string:40,
                 from /opt/local/include/QtCore/qstring.h:54,
                 from /opt/local/include/QtCore/qobject.h:48,
                 from /opt/local/include/Qsci/qscilexeroctave.h:33,
                 from src/m-editor/file-editor-tab.cc:32:
/usr/include/stdio.h:255:7: error: previous declaration of 'char* gets(char*)' 
with 'C' linkage
 char *gets(char *);
       ^
In file included from /opt/local/include/gcc48/c++/cstdlib:72:0,
                 from /opt/local/include/gcc48/c++/bits/stl_algo.h:59,
                 from /opt/local/include/gcc48/c++/algorithm:62,
                 from /opt/local/include/QtCore/qglobal.h:68,
                 from /opt/local/include/QtCore/qnamespace.h:45,
                 from /opt/local/include/QtCore/qobjectdefs.h:45,
                 from /opt/local/include/QtCore/qobject.h:47,
                 from /opt/local/include/Qsci/qscilexeroctave.h:33,
                 from src/m-editor/file-editor-tab.cc:32:
../libgnu/stdio.h:1039:1: error: conflicts with new declaration with 'C++' 
linkage
 _GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
 ^
make[3]: *** [src/m-editor/src_libgui_src_la-file-editor-tab.lo] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Marius
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Marius Schamschula