Problem compiling Octave on Mac OS X

[Thomas Treichl]

Ben Abbott schrieb:
> 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.

Hi Ben and others,

thanks for inviting me into this discussion. I currently am very busy and didn't 
have any chance to reply earlier. I've seen that modifications have already been 
applied to the sources... Seems to be a very good solution :-)

Best regards,

   Thomas