Re: Testers needed for an Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacOS

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 2, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Thomas Yengst wrote:

>> From: Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
>> To: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>
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>> I've put together a *large* X86_64 app bundle for MacOS X. The DMG is about 
>> 300MB, and will expand to almost 1GB.
>> 
>> Its runs on MacOS 10.7 (Lion) on an i7 based Macbook Pro. It may only run on 
>> an i7 processor ... and/or only on MacOS 10.7.
>> 
>> If anyone is interested in giving it a test-drive, I've started an upload to 
>> my DropBox. The public link is below.
>> 
>>      http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14845154/Octave-3.6.1.app.dmg
>> 
>> If you give it a try, please let me know if it runs, if plotting works, your 
>> Mac's processor, and the MacOS version your Mac runs. These last two bits of 
>> info are available from "About This Mac".
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Tested on a Macbook Pro, OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard with a typical macports 
> installed.
> The App clocks in at just under 1 GB, which is basically the same size as 
> Matlab. Interesting.
> 
> It did work - pretty cool. Once you get all the wrinkles ironed out, I want 
> to know how you did it.
> I was surprised that it brought up a Mac TERMINAL rather than an xterm or 
> aquaterm. In addition, got these messages on startup and shutdown
> 
> exec '/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/bin/octave'
> GNU Octave, version 3.6.1
> Copyright (C) 2012 John W. Eaton and others.
> This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
> There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.
> 
> Octave was configured for "x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0".
> 
> Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.
> 
> Please contribute if you find this software useful.
> For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html
> 
> Read http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports.
> 
> For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.
> 
> error: `lookup' undefined near line 111 column 12
> error: called from:
> error:   
> /temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/set/ismember.m 
> at line 111, column 10
> error:   
> /temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/help/unimplemented.m
>  at line 56, column 5
> error:   
> /temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/set/unique.m 
> at line 143, column 9
> error:   
> /temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/optimization/__all_opts__.m
>  at line 56, column 11
> error:   
> /temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/optimization/PKG_ADD
>  at line 2, column 5
> octave-3.6.1:1> 

Thanks for the feedback.  Which cpu does your MacBook Pro have ? (i7, Core Duo, 
Core 2 Duo, ?)

The "lookup()" function is included in the bundle. On my MacBook Pro (i7 
processor) running MacOS 10.7.3 (Lion) ...

which lookup
`lookup' is a function from the file 
/Users/bpabbott/Desktop/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/lib/octave/3.6.1/oct/x86_64-apple-darwin11.3.0/lookup.oct

What do you get for "which lookup" ?

What does "PATH" return ?

To produce the app bundle I used ...

        sudo port mdmg octave36 -fltk

... to produce a dmg of everything in /opt/local needed to build and run 
Octave. I'm using a local Octave36 portfile for this purpose. I then used a Mac 
with no macports installation to transfer the contents of the dmg stuff into 
manually constructed app bundle (I have a simple script for that).

Once all the wrinkles are worked out, I'll document the entire process on the 
wiki.

Ben