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

[Thomas Yengst]

Ben,

Sorry - I misinterpreted your original question. Here is 'path' from the octave 
prompt:

/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/miscellaneous
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/optimization
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/path
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/pkg
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/plot
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/polynomial
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/prefs
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/set
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/signal
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/sparse
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/specfun
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/special-matrix
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/startup
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/statistics
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/statistics/base
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/statistics/distributions
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/statistics/models
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/statistics/tests
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/strings
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/testfun
/temp/Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/share/octave/3.6.1/m/time

Tom

On Mar 2, 2012, at 8:39 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> Tom,
> 
> What is the "path" in Octave?
> 
> Ben
> 
> On Mar 2, 2012, at 11:36 PM, Thomas Yengst <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Ben,
>> 
>> Macbook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo
>> which lookup => nothing, but I can drill down to find it in 
>> /Octave-3.6.1.app/Contents/Resources/lib/octave/3.6.1/oct/x86_64-apple-darwin11.3.0/lookup.oct
>> 
>> my path is:
>> PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/Developer/usr/bin:/Applications/eclipse/AndroidSDK/tools:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
>> 
>> it does appear that launching octave.app finds my .octaverc file because the 
>> first line of output is:
>> Octave was configured for "x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0".  <== aka Snow Leopard 
>> 10.6.8
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 2, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 2, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Thomas Yengst wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> From: Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
>>>>> To: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>
>>>>> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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
>>> 
>> 

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