Comments on: Installing Octave Packages in Snow Leopard

By: James

James — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:43:20 +0000

Thanks a ton. This was quite helpful.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:27:40 +0000

Hey thanks – this solved the Octave – 10.6 issues for me.

I can confirm that for
– Octave from sourceforge (octave-3.2.3-i386.dmg)
(not from macports, and no changes to gcc)
editing the file
/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resource/bin/mkoctfile-3.2.3
and inserting of the form
CFLAGS=”-arch i386 ${CFLAGS}”

fixes mkoctfile and I can now do:
pkg install
for packages from sourceforge.

By: Guido

Guido — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:45:20 +0000

xnk,

thank you for pointing out that. Yes, I installed Gcc 4.5 (experimental) from http://hpc.sourceforge.net/ and it does not accept -arch i386. Intel compilers do, hence I thought it was their peculiarity.

Cheers,

Guido

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:57:34 +0000

MacPorts’ Octave works on Snow Leopard for two or three weeks now. You can eben build octave in 64 Bit!

Bye
Sebastian

By: xnk

xnk — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:12:47 +0000

Guido,

Did you install a non-Apple build of gcc over the version that comes with the Developer Tools? The -arch flag is supplied by the Apple universal binary framework, not Intel.