On May 9, 2014, at 3:01 AM, Jerry <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 9, 2014, at 1:25 AM, Jerry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On May 9, 2014, at 12:58 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Hi Jerry, >>> >>> octave isn’t building these days >> >> This is TERRIBLE news! I would never have upgraded my OS had I known this. >> >>> on 10.9 because of atlas [1]. >> >> I get: >> $ port installed atlas >> The following ports are currently installed: >> atlas @3.10.1_5+gcc48 (active) >> >>> >>> Can you verify that you’re seeing the same error? >> >> Not if I understand the above result. Doesn't that indicate that atlas is >> installed? >>> >>> Ticket responder Vince obviously managed to get it to run on his end, but >>> it’s unclear how... >>> >>> Greets, >>> Marko >>> >>> >>> >>> [1] https://trac.macports.org/ticket/42160 >> >> FWIW the thread there mentions gcc48 and FWIW I used variant +gcc48, as in >> sudo port install octave +atlas+docs+fltk+gcc48 >> >> If you look at my original post (with some generated output), all it says is >> that a bunch of dependencies were not installed but it doesn't give a clue >> why or what to do about it. >> >> Jerry > > Hold on for a while--I think Octave is now building, or at least some more > dependencies. I did do sudo port clean octave but to no effect. But here's > what I think happened. I mentioned in my original post that my first attempt > (today) to install Octave stalled when Java was needed. I was required to > click a dialog box to agree to install Java, and I think this (needing to > click) might have caused the stall. But I _think_ that what happened is that > when the Java installation finished it put up another dialog box ("OK" or the > like) which got buried in the mess of windows on my screen and I didn't see > it until a few minutes ago. :-/ So I dismissed the dialog and tried > installing Octave again and things seem to be progressing nicely. > > I'll let you know how this turns out but for now I'll just wipe the egg off > my face, if you'll allow me an odd Americanism. > > In the meantime, for any Octave users who might be reading this, over at > octave.org there is a .dmg download (650 MB) of Octave 3.8, whereas the > latest MacPorts version is 3.6.4. The significance of this is that 3.8 has a > beta version of the long-awaited GUI. Yea! I'm downloading it right now. I > popped the obvious question to the MacPorts Octave maintainer a while back > and he has indicated that he can get 3.8.x ported later this year. > > Jerry
Octave has just completed installing and it works. Sorry for the bother. Jerry _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
