installing octave 3.0.0 on a Mac Intel machine

[Ben Abbott]

Francis,

If the "make check" is the problem, you can try editing the  
octave.info file and removing the line "make check" from the build  
script.

Ben

On Jan 4, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Francis Poulin wrote:

>
> 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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