installing octave 3.0.0 on a Mac Intel machine

[Ben Abbott]

Francis Poulin wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've recently tried building the latest version of octave on my mac  
> intel 10.4.11 machine with some success.
> 
> First, when I tried to configure it I was getting an error about  
> readline needing to be 4.2.  I thought this was strange so I  
> installed a more recent version 5.2 in /usr/local/include/readline/.   
> It still gave me the same message.  I found out that apparently on  
> the mac readline is installed in /usr/include/readline/.  It might  
> have been installed twice I didn't check before hand.  Anyhow, when I  
> updated both locations the configure script ran.  I'm including a  
> copy in case this is useful information.
> 
> Second, when I try make it doesn't seem to work.  I get the following  
> messages.  Do I need to specify the library path to be something  
> particular?
> 
> I've been using octave for years and even have used it in teaching as  
> an alternative to matlab.  If I can get it working it would be  
> something I would like to continue using in my classes.
> 
> Thanks,
> Francis
> 
> /usr/bin/libtool: can't locate file for: -lcholmod
> /usr/bin/libtool: file: -lcholmod is not an object file (not allowed  
> in a library)
> /usr/bin/libtool: can't locate file for: -lumfpack
> /usr/bin/libtool: file: -lumfpack is not an object file (not allowed  
> in a library)
> /usr/bin/libtool: can't locate file for: -lamd
> /usr/bin/libtool: file: -lamd is not an object file (not allowed in a  
> library)
> /usr/bin/libtool: can't locate file for: -lcamd
> /usr/bin/libtool: file: -lcamd is not an object file (not allowed in  
> a library)
> /usr/bin/libtool: can't locate file for: -lcolamd
> /usr/bin/libtool: file: -lcolamd is not an object file (not allowed  
> in a library)
> /usr/bin/libtool: can't locate file for: -lccolamd
> /usr/bin/libtool: file: -lccolamd is not an object file (not allowed  
> in a library)
> /usr/bin/libtool: can't locate file for: -lcxsparse
> /usr/bin/libtool: file: -lcxsparse is not an object file (not allowed  
> in a library)
> make[2]: *** [liboctave.dylib] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [liboctave] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 

Those errors are related to suitesparse. Do you have that package installed?
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