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==Pre-requisites== | ==Pre-requisites== | ||
Setup your system the same way as described on page [[Octave for Debian systems]]. The next step is to tweak a bit the texlive configuration file: (remember cygwin as no sudo command) | Setup your system the same way as described on page [[Octave for Debian systems]]. The next step, required to generate the documentation, is to tweak a bit the texlive configuration file: (remember cygwin as no sudo command) | ||
vi /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c | vi /usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c | ||
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mktexlsr | mktexlsr | ||
==Configure== | |||
Proceed the same way as on a Unix platform. In this case, the procedure requires a kind of bootstrapping, so it is better to put Octave outside the main directory tree; like f.i. | |||
./bootstrap | |||
mkdir compile; cd compile | |||
../configure --prefix=${HOME}/usr | |||
This configuration supposes ${HOME}/usr/bin exists and is in your $PATH. | |||
==Build== | ==Build== | ||
The procedure is a bit more tricky. Start the build as usual: | |||
make -j 2 | |||
It will fail after a looong time, while trying to launch ./run-octave. This is a well-known issue, partly caused by issues with the fork() call under Windows platforms. At this time, change run-octave to something simpler: | |||
#! /bin/sh | |||
octave_executable="${PREFIX}/usr/bin/octave" | |||
"$octave_executable" "$@" | |||
Where ${PREFIX} matches the form previously used during the configure stage. In fact, we will use the new Octave, which is not yet operationnal. But never mind. Restart the process as follows: | |||
make install | |||
This way: | |||
# the Octave libs and binaries are generated, they will be copied into their destination directory | |||
# the doc has still to be built. With the modified "run-octave", the executable which will be called is the version just installed during the previous step. Now the doc generation will succeed, and so will its installation. | |||
Enjoy! | |||
Before building Octave from scratch on a Mac OS X platform you need to install several GNU programs and libraries that are not shipped with your Mac. This descriptio111n will guide you through the procedure of GNUifying your Mac OS X step by step, so that you are then be able to configure, compile, install and run the Octave program. | Before building Octave from scratch on a Mac OS X platform you need to install several GNU programs and libraries that are not shipped with your Mac. This descriptio111n will guide you through the procedure of GNUifying your Mac OS X step by step, so that you are then be able to configure, compile, install and run the Octave program. | ||