installing octave 3.0.0 on a Mac Intel machine

[Francis Poulin]

I did what you suggested (without the local/injected option) and tried
installing octave-3.0.0-1 using
fink on two different intel macs running 10.4.  It worked on my laptop but
not my imac.  This I find
strange.  When I scroll through the output on my imac, the failure,  I see
this

Octave successfully built.  Now choose from the following:

   ./run-octave    - to run in place to test before installing
   make check      - to run the tests
   make install    - to install

 make check
make -f octMakefile check
make -C test check
./build_sparse_tests.sh
../run-octave --norc --silent --no-history ./fntests.m .

This seems to indicate that it was successfully built, which is good news. 
When I glance through
the checks I see this Error

making ov-int8.df from ov-int8.cc
mv: rename ov-int8.df-t to ov-int8.df: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [ov-int8.df] Error 1
making install in scripts
making install in audio

On my laptop, there were still other checks going on.  It would appear to
me, a non-expert, that for some reason a check didn't work and because of
that it didn't continue with the installation.  Is that about right?

One difficulty with fink is that it puts everything in
/sw/src/fink.build/root-octave-3.0.0-1/..
and then deletes it so you can't look at the log files to get a hard copy.  

I tried to reinstall it in fink and it doesn't like it because it thinks
that it's done.  

Might this be an octave problem?

Any advice as to how I can get fink to make, not check, and install?

Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
> Regarding Fink's qualification of stable/unstable, you can safely  
> (imo) ignore its implied meaning. This qualification doesn't carry the  
> same weight at it does with Debian.
> 
> To install unstable apps, you'll need to edit /sw/etc/fink.conf and  
> add the unstable tree. The line in question is below
> 
> Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main unstable/ 
> crypto local/injected
> 
> If you don't already have the "local" part there, and don't have a  
> desire to create your own package descriptions for Fink to build and  
> install, you can leave those items out.
> 
> Ben
> 
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