On 1/30/12 1:28 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 1/30/12 11:33 AM, bzink wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> When installing packages on the OS X 3.4.3 binary release, I
>> find that mkoctfile fails to correctly construct the required
>> LDFLAGS. Here is a sample attempt (note that the path to the
>> Octave.app directory is /Applications/octave/Octave.app)
>>
>> octave-3.4.0:1> getenv('LDFLAGS') ans =
>> -L/Applications/octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib
>> -L/Applications/octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib/octave-3.4.0
>>
>>
octave-3.4.0:2> cd octave/packages octave-3.4.0:3> pkg install
>> -verbose -global struct-1.0.9.tar.gz mkoctfile: stripping
>> disabled on this platform ld: warning: directory
>> '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib' following -L
>> not found ld: warning: directory
>> '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin9/4.2.1'
>>
>>
>
>>
following -L not found
>> ld: warning: directory
>> '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gcc' following
>> -L not found ld: warning: directory
>> '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin9/4.2.1'
>>
>>
>
>>
following -L not found
>> ld: warning: directory
>> '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../lib/gcc'
>> following -L not found ld: warning: directory
>> '/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin9/4.2.1/../../..'
>>
>>
>
>>
following -L not found
>> ld: library not found for -lgfortranbegin collect2: ld returned
>> 1 exit status
>>
>> (All of the ld -L flags have the wrong paths, even though the
>> getenv('LDFLAGS') seems correct.) Is there a corrective action
>> I can take?
>>
>> My mac runs OS 10.6.8 and I'm using the Xcode developer tools.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>
> Try editing
> /Applications/octave/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/bin/mkoctfile-3.4.0
>
>
and set LDFLAGS there to match what you're getting from getenv(). You
> may need to set some of the other variables, too. You might a
>
> Either that or move Octave.app out of the octave/ directory and
> into the top-level /Applications/ directory.
>
> Unfortunately, the mkoctfile-3.4.0 in Octave.app isn't quite set
> up properly to cope with allowing the app to be moved.
>
A bit more information on this issue:
As you're aware, Octave's build process hardcodes paths in
mkoctfile-<version> and oct-conf.h. And unless I'm totally off base,
I think the information in oct-conf.h gets encoded in the octave
executable, to be accessed via "octave_config_info".
Unfortunately, absolute paths are being used:
octave-3.4.0:2> octave_config_info LDFLAGS
ans = -arch i386 -L/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib
-B/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gcc -L/usr/lib -lz
-lbz2 -lxml2
The use of absolute paths means that the app bundle can't be moved out
of /Applications. It shouldn't be impossible, however, to change
-L/Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Resources/lib
to e.g.
-L@executable_path/../lib
in mkoctfile-3.4.0 and oct-conf.h after configuration but before
building, and this should allow the app to be moved around, which is
what non-Unix-oriented Mac people expect.
Another issue I found was that the 3.4.0 app hardcodes
/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 and /usr/bin/g++-4.2, which don't exist for Xcode 4.2
on either 10.6 or 10.7 . It might be nice to generate a new app
bundle that actually works on those platforms. :-)
If build scripts to generate the app bundle are available, then I'd be
willing to help out with those.
--
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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