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- octave.2.0.11.m.README
- Mar 11, 1998
-
-
- OVERVIEW
-
- Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical
- computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving
- linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other
- numerical experiments. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language.
-
- Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
- Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
- later version.
-
-
- CONTENTS
-
- file: octave.2.0.11.1.m.I.b.tar.gz
- desc: octave v 2.0.11 (port 1) for i386 Openstep for Mach.
- size: 2176kb
- md5sum: dba26e6ac5b529d823443cf2c4776a7d
-
- file: octave.2.0.11.1.I.b.tar.gz
- desc: octave v2.0.11 (port 1) for i386 NEXTSTEP 3.x (OS 4.x also)
- size: 2064kb
- md5sum: 28787250580f91dd47163edeb5e64851
-
- file: octave.2.0.11.1.N.b.tar.gz
- desc: octave v2.0.11 (port 1) for m68k NEXTSTEP 3.x (OS 4.x also)
- size: 1976kb
- md5sum: e227e0975afef763fc8ee2f75f051247
-
- Uploaded to
- http://www.www.org/openstep/submissions/
- to move to
- http://www.peak.org/openstep/mach/apps/educational (??)
-
- AND
-
- Uploaded to
- http://www.peak.org/next/submissions
- to move to
- http://www.peak.org/next/apps/educational/
-
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- Download the appropriate archive for your architecture. Note that
- the NEXTSTEP versions will also run on OpenStep for Mach 4.x systems.
- The OpenStep specific port was built with dynamic library support (just
- to see if it would work).
-
- As root, issue the following Terminal.app commands:
-
- 1. Unpack the archive:
- > gnutar xzvf octave.2.0.11.1.*.b.tar.gz
- 2. Change directory into newly created folder:
- > cd octave-2.0.11-*-next-*
- 3. Run the provided installation script. Here you can specify
- the root directory of where you want octave installed (/usr/local
- is the default):
- > ./install-octave /usr/local
-
- You may also want to install GNU_Term, a NEXTSTEP GUI front end for
- gnuplot:
- It can currently be find at:
- http://www.peak.org/next/apps/graphics/plotting/
- GnuTerm_1.1a.NIHS.bs.tar.gz
-
-
- COMPILING FROM SOURCE
-
- Here are some things you need to do to get octave to compile for
- nextstep3/openstep4.
-
-
- 1. If using g77 (ie, g77-0.5.21 and gcc-2.7.2.3.f.1), need to configure with:
- configure --with-g77 (so... whenever I say run configure, you need
- to include --with-g77.
-
- This didn't seem to work completely, I had to manually specify that g77
- was compatible with f2c in config.cache, then re-run configure.
-
- fix configure
- - modify config.cache so termios.h,unistd.h,utsname.h are no
- (they are posix only headers, and shouldn't be included here).\
- and specify f2c_f77_compat to be yes (see 1 above)
- - re-run configure
-
- 2. fix signal.h (if needed)
-
- /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-next-nextstep4/2.7.2.3.f.1/include/bsd/sys/
- so that it reads:
-
- NOTE: the old defs of the signals are not liked by g++:
-
- --------
- #ifdef __STRICT_BSD__
- #define BADSIG (int (*)(int))-1
- #define SIG_DFL (int (*)(int))0
- #define SIG_IGN (int (*)(int))1
-
- #ifdef KERNEL
- #define SIG_CATCH (int (*)(int))2
- #define SIG_HOLD (int (*)(int))3
- #endif
-
- #else /* __STRICT_BSD__ */
-
- #ifdef _NEXT_SOURCE
- #define BADSIG (void (*)(int))-1
- #endif /* _NEXT_SOURCE */
-
- #if defined(_NEXT_SOURCE) || defined(_POSIX_SOURCE)
- #define SIG_DFL (void (*)(int))0
- #define SIG_IGN (void (*)(int))1
- ...
-
- 3. GNU make (mine) failed to use ddot.f object file in libcruft.a, which
- caused link errors. Manually adding blas/ddot.o to libcruft solved
- the problem. /bin/gnumake worked like a charm (openstep only).
-
- 4. Type mis-matches cause linking errors
-
- a. mode_t
- config.h: #define mode_t int
- liboctave/statdefs.h #define mode_t unsigned short
-
- I changed the config.h reference since NeXT wants mode_t to
- be u_short apparently (reference was a man page for stat).
-
- b. undefined symbol: _isatty_F: (only for m68k cross compile?)
-
- patch src/lex.cc
-
- --- lex.cc_orig Wed Mar 11 15:15:50 1998
- +++ lex.cc Wed Mar 11 13:33:28 1998
- @@ -2122,7 +2122,9 @@
-
- #ifndef YY_ALWAYS_INTERACTIVE
- #ifndef YY_NEVER_INTERACTIVE
- +extern "C" {
- extern int isatty YY_PROTO(( int ));
- +}
- #endif
- #endif
-
-
- 5. program_invocation_name linking errors
-
- a. Make sure kpathsea/c-auto.h has the following:
-
- /* Define if you are using GNU libc or otherwise have global variables
- `program_invocation_name' and `program_invocation_short_name'. */
- #undef HAVE_PROGRAM_INVOCATION_NAME
-
- b. add -fno-common to CFLAGS in kpathsea/Makefile
-
- c. Rebuild (gnumake clean; gnumake) the kpathsea subdirectory.
- And the file kpathsea/progname.c should then define the relevent
- global variables.
-
- 6. dynamic linking vs static linking (openstep4 only)
-
- The building of c++ dynamic libraries is VERY shaky.
- C and Fortran dynamic libraries are ok, for the most part.
- In my initial testing, the statically linked octave binary
- was 2.8MB while the dynamically linked octave binary (using dynamic
- library libcruft.dylib) was 2MB in size.
-
-
- HISTORY
-
- This is my own internal history of progress.
-
- ??
- include i386-apple-rhapsody5 port.
- include ppc-apple-rhapsody5 port.
- Mar 11, 1998 (release 3)
- update to octave-2.0.11
- No more installer package, use traditional octave install.
- include m68k-next-nextstep3 port.
- include i386-next-nextstep3 port.
- include i386-next-openstep4 port.
- Mar 19, 1997
- Update to octave-2.0.5.
- Use standard octave directory scheme.
- Jan 21, 1997 (release 3)
- Update to octave-2.0.1
- fix gnuplot/ls problem.
- Jan 2, 1997 (release 2)
- Added documentation, FAT libraries
- Install as Installer.app package
- First public release, uploaded to ftp.next.peak.org, Jan 2, 1997
- Doesn't work with gnuplot (????)
- Dec 20, 1996 (release 1)
- Added m68k binary.
- Dec 18, 1996 (beta 2)
- Fixed help system bug (couldn't find info binary)
-
-
- CREDITS/REFERENCES
-
- Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
- Computer System Manager
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
-
- Octave source and other binaries:
- http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave
- ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave
-
- GNUTerm
- http://www.peak.org/next/apps/graphics/plotting/
-
-