Re: Installing Octave on Snow Leo

2018-01-23 Thread Uli Wienands
Ok, thanks to everybody for your help. clang-5.0 was successfully installed. After that I got qscintilla-qt4 and then octave built. At first sight everything works. octave-gui displays the known issue of crashing upon quit (and it is a bit nasty in that it needs kill -9 from the terminal to flu

Re: Installing Octave on Snow Leo

2018-01-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 21, 2018, at 02:47, Bill Cole wrote: > The worst problem generally on SL is the trickle of creeping C++11 > dependencies that have made it essentially mandatory to do this: > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/LibcxxOnOlderSystems and then hack around > breakage in ports like lz4 that blind

Re: Installing Octave on Snow Leo

2018-01-22 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 20 January 2018 at 21:55, Uli Wienands wrote: > Ok, I did selfupdate Macports and tried again, and indeed it now gets past > this hurdle. > > However, at the end it tells me that all compilers are blacklisted & it will > default to first fall-back option (whatever that is)_. It then wants to > i

Re: Installing Octave on Snow Leo

2018-01-22 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 20, 2018, at 14:55, Uli Wienands wrote: > Ok, I did selfupdate Macports and tried again, and indeed it now gets past > this hurdle. > > However, at the end it tells me that all compilers are blacklisted & it will > default to first fall-back option (whatever that is)_. It then wants to

Re: Installing Octave on Snow Leo

2018-01-22 Thread Ken Cunningham
should also say I found octave in the end unusable on 10.6 due to a qt4 error that filled the screen output log with useless messages that everwhelmed the output. so don't be too hopeful. K > On Jan 21, 2018, at 1:58 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 20 Jan 2018, at 8:55 pm, Uli Wienan

Re: Installing Octave on Snow Leo

2018-01-22 Thread Chris Jones
Hi, > On 20 Jan 2018, at 8:55 pm, Uli Wienands wrote: > > Ok, I did selfupdate Macports and tried again, and indeed it now gets past > this hurdle. > > However, at the end it tells me that all compilers are blacklisted & it will > default to first fall-back option (whatever that is)_. It then

Re: Installing Octave on Snow Leo

2018-01-22 Thread Bill Cole
On 20 Jan 2018, at 15:55 (-0500), Uli Wienands wrote: I have gcc up to 7 and I don't think clang works particularly well with Snow Leo. How so? Xcode for SL includes clang: bigsky:~ root# uname -a Darwin bigsky.scconsult.com 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011;

Re: Installing Octave on Snow Leo

2018-01-20 Thread Ken Cunningham
I would let Macports do what it wants to do. K Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 20, 2018, at 12:55 PM, Uli Wienands wrote: > > Ok, I did selfupdate Macports and tried again, and indeed it now gets past > this hurdle. > > However, at the end it tells me that all compilers are blacklisted & it wi

Re: Installing Octave on Snow Leo

2018-01-20 Thread Uli Wienands
Ok, I did selfupdate Macports and tried again, and indeed it now gets past this hurdle. However, at the end it tells me that all compilers are blacklisted & it will default to first fall-back option (whatever that is)_. It then wants to install clang 5.0 and llvm 5.0, at which time I said "no"

Re: Installing Octave on Snow Leo

2018-01-19 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 20 January 2018 at 04:24, Uli Wienands wrote: > I am trying to install Octave on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. > > Running sudo port install octave the first time (after selfupdate) updates a > bunch of already installed deps. It then chokes on installing something > called netpbm. > > Futzing aroun

Re: Installing Octave on Snow Leo

2018-01-19 Thread Ken Cunningham
On 2018-01-19, at 9:59 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> >> error: >> >> :info:build Undefined symbols: >> :info:build "_strnlen", referenced from: >> :info:build _main in sldtoppm.o >> :info:build ld: symbol(s) not found >> > > > Not clear - I just installed it without any issue, without

Re: Installing Octave on Snow Leo

2018-01-19 Thread Ken Cunningham
On 2018-01-19, at 9:33 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote: > > On 2018-01-19, at 7:24 PM, Uli Wienands wrote: > >> Maybe someone else can tell me what I may do differently? Zipped logfile is >> attached >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Uli >> > > error: > > :info:build Undefined symbols: > :info:buil

Re: Installing Octave on Snow Leo

2018-01-19 Thread Ken Cunningham
On 2018-01-19, at 7:24 PM, Uli Wienands wrote: > Maybe someone else can tell me what I may do differently? Zipped logfile is > attached > > Thanks in advance, > > Uli > error: :info:build Undefined symbols: :info:build "_strnlen", referenced from: :info:build _main in sldtoppm.o :in