Re: [OctDev] (no subject)

[Thomas T. <Tho...@gm...>]

Thomas L. Scofield schrieb:
> 
> I am running Octave 3.0.0 on a MacBook Pro with Mac OS 10.4.11.  I have 
> been able to install some of the octave-forge packages without any 
> problems.  Others seem to install, but with some warnings.  One warning 
> common to many installs is the one
> 
>   Makeconf.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
> 
> I don't know what to make of that, but it doesn't seem to impede 
> installation, so I've ignored it myself.  One of the packages I wish 
> most to install, however, does not.  It is the image package.  I have 
> come to believe (perhaps wrongly) that the problem is that I (likely) do 
> not have the library libjpeg-devel.  That is listed as a requirement, 
> and from what I've been able to glean off of internet pages that mention 
> this library, it seems that it contains header files for libjpeg.  I 
> have included the output below (I apologize for the sheer size of it) of 
> a verbose "pkg install" command.  It seems like the fact that it checks 
> for certain header files and doesn't find them might confirm my diagnosis.
> 
> Nevertheless, I don't have a clue how to obtain this (and other) 
> development package(s).  (In trying to install the 'symbolic' package, I 
> ran up against 'ginac-devel' which I don't know how to get either.)  My 
> usual method is to find things using fink, apt-get or macports, but all 
> of these come up empty.  (I have downloaded all libjpeg packages 
> available using fink, but libjpeg-devel is not listed among them.)  I 
> can't even seem to find a tarball version of this library (though, come 
> to think of it, I usually get tarballs for applications; I don't know if 
> libraries are distributed that way or not).  Can anyone explain to me 
> how I can get this package working?

Hi Thomas,

I installed the MacTex package that comes with a complete libmagick. It's very 
large (>700MB) but I'm able to do a

   pkg install image-1.04.tar.gz

without problems. The MacTex package can be found there

   http://www.tug.org/mactex

I hope this helps for you...

   Thomas