[OctDev] Proposed octave-forge for FreeBSD

[Alexander Barth]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith
<stephen at math.missouri.edu> wrote:
> Alexander Barth wrote:
>>>
>>> The only packages I didn't get to build were database, java and
>>> jhandles.  If someone else could do these for me I would appreciate it.
>>>  I also did not get octcdf to build, because it requires a newer
>>> version of netcdf than FreeBSD currently has in the ports.
>>
>> Hi Stephen,
>> Thank you for your efforts to port octave-forge to FreeBSD!
>> I'm the author of octcdf. Which version of netcdf is included in ports?
>>>
>>> From a quick google search I found this page
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=netcdf and it looks like
>> that 3.6.3 included. In principle, octcdf should build with any
>> version newer than 3.6.0. If you are using a recent enough version of
>> netcdf, can you send me the error message that you got while compiling
>> octcdf on FreeBSD?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Alex
>
> I am using netcdf-3.6.3.  The the error message is at the bottom of the
> email.  Now that I reflect on it, it is an issue that mkoctfile, which comes
> with octave itself, is incapable of parsing the "-pthread" - presumably on
> Linux it is "-lpthread."
>
> I just tried hacking mkoctfile, and it seems to resolve the issue.  So I
> should be able to fix this myself.
>
> Thanks for inspiring me to work on this.
>
> Stephen
>
> mkoctfile -DHAVE_OCTAVE_ -v  -o netcdf.oct -I/usr/local/include
> -I/usr/local/include/metis -I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_OCTAVE_INT
> ov-netcdf.o ov-ncfile.o ov-ncvar.o ov-ncatt.o ov-ncdim.o -L/usr/local/lib
> -pthread -lnetcdf
> mkoctfile: unrecognized argument -pthread
> gmake[1]: *** [netcdf.oct] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/p2/math/octave-forge-octcdf/work/octcdf-1.0.11/src'
> gmake: *** [build] Error 2
> *** Error code 2
>
> Stop in /usr/p2/math/octave-forge-octcdf.
>

Thank you for your feedback and making octcdf work on FreeBSD!
Alex