OT Re: AMD64- Solutions

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:20:29AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:02:56PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > If you already have matlab code in house, then check out octave.
> > You can find it in ports/math/octave.  I have been able to run 
> > most matlab codes given to me by others with little or no changes.
> 
> Have you used octave on AMD64 by chance?  The port is
> BROKEN="Does not build on amd64 (Shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC)"
> Do you have a local patch by chance?

I've used the patch to the makefile included below to build it from
ports.

------------------------ octave-mak.patch ------------------------
--- Makefile.orig	Fri Dec  3 20:36:40 2004
+++ Makefile	Sat Dec  4 09:05:08 2004
@@ -23,10 +23,6 @@
 
 .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
 
-.if ${ARCH} == "amd64"
-BROKEN=		"Does not build on amd64 (Shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC)"
-.endif
-
 .if ${PORTOBJFORMAT} == "elf"
 GNU_HOST=	${ARCH}-portbld-freebsd${OSREL}
 .else
@@ -38,11 +34,15 @@
 BLAS_LIBS=	"-L${LOCALBASE}/lib -lf77blas -lcblas -latlas"
 USE_GMAKE=	yes
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
-USE_REINPLACE=	yes
 
-CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--host=${GNU_HOST} \
-		--with-fftw --with-blas=${BLAS_LIBS} --with-lapack=-lalapack \
-		--enable-shared
+CONIGURE_ARGS=  --host=${GNU_HOST} \
+		--with-fftw --with-blas=${BLAS_LIBS} --with-lapack=-lalapack
+.if ${ARCH} == "amd64"
+CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --disable-shared
+.else
+CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --enable-shared
+.endif
+
 CONFIGURE_ENV=	CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -I${LOCALBASE}/include" \
 		LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L${LOCALBASE}/lib" \
 		CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I${LOCALBASE}/include" \
@@ -62,12 +62,6 @@
 	@${RM} -f ${WRKSRC}/doc/interpreter/octave.info*
 	@${RM} -f ${WRKSRC}/doc/liboctave/liboctave.info*
 post-install:
-	${RM} ${PREFIX}/bin/octave
-	@${CP} ${FILESDIR}/octave ${WRKDIR}
-	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's,%%PREFIX%%,${PREFIX},g ; \
-			      s,%%OCTAVE_VERSION%%,${OCTAVE_VERSION},g' \
-			      ${WRKDIR}/octave
-	${INSTALL_SCRIPT} ${WRKDIR}/octave ${PREFIX}/bin
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/doc/liboctave/liboctave.info ${PREFIX}/info
 	install-info --entry='* Octave: (octave).	Interactive language for numerical computations.' $(PREFIX)/info/octave.info $(PREFIX)/info/dir
 	install-info --entry='* LibOctave: (liboctave).	C++ class library for Octave.' $(PREFIX)/info/liboctave.info $(PREFIX)/info/dir
------------------------ octave-mak.patch ------------------------

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