Thanks, Derick, Actually, I feel the same as you about OS X and intel - I have absolutely no interest in the latter and am becoming increasingly annoyed at the former (a friend describes its performance as having a certain "viscosity" - as though one is swimming through thick honey...)
I tried yum using the "standard" repositories with no luck. In order to compile scilab, one needs g77 which also seems to be unavailable using yum. I am a little new to YDL (I was heavily into linux about 6 years ago, before OS X came on the scene. I couldn't stand OS9) and need to become accustomed to the better sources of apps for ppc linux. I would have thought that g77 was a standard app and would be in the popular places. Thanks again. -wn On Dec 7, 2006, at 9:56 PM, Derick Centeno wrote: > On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:45:00 -0800 > Warren Nagourney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Derick, >> >> I downloaded the sources from www.scilab.org and attempted to compile >> them under OS X (using gcc 4). They claimed to be configured for a >> general unix distribution, so it should have worked (I ran configure >> first and it seemed to detect the system fine). I can try the same >> thing on my linux box and see whether it would work (the problem was >> an incompatibility between some Apple header and a scilab header >> file). >> >> Could it be obtained using yum? I thought scilab was a little too >> arcane for the standard yum repositories. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -wn >> > > Hi Warren: > > I've pretty much abandoned OS X as a development platform. I'm not > interested > in Intel. OS X runs awfully slow on a PowerPC system and gets in > the way of > an otherwise robust architecture. I'm not the fellow to discuss > details of > OS X or Darwin programming development. If that is what you are > interested in > you could participate with Apple's Developer program and their > developer's mail > list. The questions regarding OS X are discussed in detail there. > > I'm committed to the PowerPC platform, and have become rather > focused on Linux > and YDL in particular. > > Regarding yum and using it to search for scilab; my own view was > that you > really never know until you try. > > If it's not found by yum you may want to try a Debian variant known > as Ubuntu > here: > > http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/cgi-bin/download.pl? > arch=powerpc&file=pool%2Fmultiverse%2Fs%2Fscilab% > 2Fscilab_2.7-13_powerpc.deb&md5sum=d60c05f374539645187b5e6a042ec2bb&ar > ch=powerpc&type=main > > The only difficulty is that you will have to be familiar with > unpacking Debian > packages. > > I got the source from here: > > http://www.scilab.org/download/index_download.php?page=release.html > > A possible reason sources can't or won't compile within YDL are: > > * dependencies may be processor (Intel) specific. > * library calls may be processor (Intel) specific. > > Unfortunately, one won't know which is the case until one attempts > to compile > within the YDL environment one uses. Read the output as the > program attempts > to compile. Anything missing will be listed with warning > statements etc.; > remember to read the documentation included with the source for > associated > programs which should be with the program but which were not > included with the > source. This is all tedious stuff, but you've come this far so why > stop at > this point. > > It may not hurt to ask TSS to include it as a package, in it's > mirrors in the > future. Or that scilab.org develop a package for YDL. It might be > even better > to get the two entities to acknowledge each other and do us, the > users, a favor! > > Best wishes... Derick. > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
