Re: build trouble on MacOS 10.5

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 21, 2009, at 12:47 AM, Rob Mahurin wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:36:55AM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 02:52:28PM -0500, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> On Dec 20, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Rob Mahurin wrote:
>>>> On the theory that it's a library conflict, I complied with 
>>>> 
>>>>    ./configure CC=gcc-mp-4.3 CXX=g++-mp-4.3 F77=gfortran-mp-4.3
>>>>    LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib --without-framework-carbon
>>>>    --without-qhull --without-z --without-hdf5 --without-fftw3
>>>>    --without-fftw3f --without-glpk --without-curl
>>>>    --without-framework-opengl --without-qrupdate --without-amd
>>>>    --without-camd --without-colamd --without-ccolamd
>>>>    --without-cholmod --without-cxsparse --without-umfpack
>>>>    --without-arpack --disable-readline
>>>> 
>>>> That gives me a run-octave that runs without crashing.  
>> [...]
>>>> Now the build succeeds.  
>>>> 
>>>>    $ make check
>>>>      PASS   5321
>>>>      FAIL      5
>>> 
>>> Maybe we should see if it is just one of the libraries that is
>>> responsible. Perhaps multiple builds with just one of the
>>> --without-foobar will tell us which one is the problem?
>> 
>> I'm going the other way, removing --withouts one at a time.  I started
>> with qhull, since that was mentioned in the patch I submitted (thanks
>> to Rik for applying it).  I got extra failures when I removed
>> cxsparse, so I left that one.  About half the --withouts are gone,
>> with three test failures.
>> 
>>> BTW, you mention that run-octave didn't crash. I assume you mean you
>>> can run and then quit without error?
>> 
>> Right.  With linking to external libraries restricted, I haven't yet
>> reproduced the bus error on startup whose backtrace we compared
>> earlier.
> 
> Strike that: if I configure with 
> 
>       ./configure CC=gcc-mp-4.3 CXX=g++-mp-4.3 F77=gfortran-mp-4.3
>       LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib --without-framework-carbon
>       --without-z --without-hdf5 --without-fftw3 --without-fftw3f
>       --without-glpk --without-curl --without-cholmod
>       --without-cxsparse --without-umfpack
> 
> then I get
> 
>       Making check in test
>       ../run-octave --norc --silent --no-history ./fntests.m .
>       make[2]: *** [check] Bus error
> 
> The previous build included --without-framework-opengl, and that build
> proceeded through "make check" with only three test failures.  Do you
> also have trouble with this library?
> 
> Cheers,
> Rob

The first attempt I made, after reading your results, was a build with 
--without-framework-carbon and --without-framework-opengl.

For me the bus error remained. I'm now trying to build including all the 
--without-xxx's.

Ben