From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Dec 23 16:41:35 2003
Subject: Re: Failure (Re: How to use octave-forge?)
From: Vic Norton <vic at norton dot name>
To: Per Persson <persquare at mac dot com>, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:40:53 -0500

Hi Per,

I have downloaded "octave-2.1.50" and configured with

    octave-2.1.50$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/local

However, there is no config.h file in the "octave-2.1.50" directory. 
The only occurrence of "HAVE_DYLD_API" in the directory is in

    ~/Download/octave-2.1.50/liboctave/oct-shlib.cc

where it appears 3 times.

I see your "#define HAVE_DYLD_API 1" instruction in the 
"INSTALL.MacOSX" file in the "octave-forge-2003.06.02" distribution. 
That advice applies to the  "octave-2.1.48" distribution. It's for 
Mac OSX 10.2.x.

I am running Mac OSX 10.3.2. Maybe the --enable-shared and 
--enable-dl options will work on this later version of OS X. On the 
other hand, maybe I need to install octave-2.1.48 so I'll have an 
config.h file to tweak. Are there any Panther people out there that 
know the right approach?

This whole thing is a mess. I'm a real Unix novice, and these Mac OS 
X incompatibilities don't help.

Regards,

Vic

At 10:11 PM +0100 12/23/03, Per Persson wrote:
>On Dec 23, 2003, at 21:51, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
>
>>Vic Norton wrote:
>>>Thanks for all the advice about installing octave-forge functions. I am
>>>sorry to report that my installation efforts have not met with success.
>>>My octave 2.1.50 has no trouble reading newly installed octave-forge
>>>m-files, but it cannot execute any oct-files.
>>
>>I think for octave-forge to work your octave had to be compiled
>>with --enable-shared --enable-dl options.
>
>No, not on Mac OS X :-(
>
>The --enable-shared --enable-dl options won't work on OS X. The 
>current work-around is to edit config.h _after_ configuring (w/o 
>--enable-shared --enable-dl options) so that the line: /* #undef 
>HAVE_DYLD_API */ instead reads: #define HAVE_DYLD_API 1
>
>This will (should) let you build and run .oct files.
>
>/Per




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