Re: MXE Octave: "... has no symbols" warning under Mac OS X

[John W. Eaton]

On 09/23/2013 09:19 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2013, at 8:59 AM, c. wrote:
>
> > On 23 Sep 2013, at 14:29, Ben Abbott<address@hidden>  wrote:
> >
> > > We could create a bungle via macports alone, but it would include build/runtime 
> > > dependencies of dependencies of dependencies ... resulting in about 1GB for a 
> > > bundle.  The bigger concern (for me) is that we may end up bundling non-GPL 
> > > stuff and be unaware of it.
> > >
> > > Ben
> >
> > I agree with your concern, but it should be easy to check license of every 
> > recursive dependency of Octave.
> > I think that could be done via something like:
> >
> > port info --name --license rdepof:octave
> >
> > if I'm not mistaken this should produce a list of all dependencies and 
> > dependencies of dependencies with the corresponding license.
> >
> > c.
>
> METIS, pdflib, and gnuplot show up with licenses labeled as "Restrictive".

You need to compile SuiteSparse without METIS.

The license of gnuplot is OK, we use it, but we are not linking to it.

How is pdflib used?

jwe