installing octave 3.0.0 on a Mac Intel machine

[Thomas Treichl]

Francis Poulin schrieb:
> I installed suitesparse using macports.  It didn't give me any errors and
> when I look in /opt/local/lib see there is a libcxsparse.a file which means
> that something was created.  Do you have any suggestions as to how I can
> test the suitesparse installation?  
> 
> The configure.log indicates that some of the sparse libraries are found but
> curl and qhull are not.  curl was installed separately but it's not found.  
> I'm not sure how big of a deal that is but I thought I would mention it just
> in case.
> 
> Those errors are related to suitesparse. Do you have that package installed?

Hi Francis,

if you really want to build all dependencies of Octave on your own (because this 
is quite a lot of work) and you also want to build Octave then you should have a 
look at

   http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForMac

We have spent some time to explain how eg. SuiteSparse, curl, etc. have to be 
installed before Octave can be build on a Mac - let's say we tried to explain 
how to GNUify a Mac before building Octave ;-)

You know that you have several choices of installing various Octave version on a 
Mac from Fink, HMUG, MacPorts, OctaveForge?

   Thomas