Problem compiling Octave on Mac OS X

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 2, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Rob Mahurin wrote:

> On Jun 2, 2009, at 2:16 AM, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
>> I also stumbled recently into this recently. The problem is that the
>> CoreGraphics framework is in the ApplicationServices framework and  
>> the
>> latter is not passed to the linker.
>>
>> You must modifiy the declaration of OCTINTERP_LINK_DEPS in the file
>> src/Makefile.in (or directly in the Makefile if you do not want to
>> regenerate everything).
>> Replace
>> OCTINTERP_LINK_DEPS = \
>>   -L../liboctave $(LIBOCTAVE) -L../libcruft $(LIBCRUFT) $(LIBS) $ 
>> (FLIBS) \
>>   $(OPENGL_LIBS)
>>
>> by
>> OCTINTERP_LINK_DEPS = \
>>   -L../liboctave $(LIBOCTAVE) -L../libcruft $(LIBCRUFT) $(LIBS) $ 
>> (FLIBS) \
>>   $(OPENGL_LIBS) $(CARBON_LIBS)
>>
>>
>> Including (CARBON_LIBS) does the trick since it will automatically
>> call the ApplicationServices headers and hence the CoreGraphics  
>> headers.
>>
>> If you make this change in src/Makefile.in, you must re-run the
>> configuration.
>
>
> Thanks Bernard, that did the trick.
>
> Ben: I remember you had evolved a fairly elaborate set of arguments  
> to ./configure.  Does something you do have this same effect?  Would  
> it be appropriate to patch the sources as attached?
>
> Rob

My args to configure descend from those used by the Fink (a package  
management system for Mac OSX). Thus, I'm not very knowledgeable. I've  
cc'd Thomas Treichl as he he has a lot of experience in this area.

Ben