Issues installing octave on osx 10.6.8

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 16, 2012, at 18:27, George Profenza <orgicus at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to install octave and I've ran into an error:
> I've scrolled down in the log and the problem is here:
> 
> [code]
> :info:build /opt/local/bin/g++-mp-4.5 -bundle -bundle_loader ../src/octave -L/opt/local/lib -o fltk_backend.oct pic/fltk_backend.o -L../libcruft -lcruft -L../liboctave -loctave -L. -loctinterp -lcholmod -lmetis -lSuiteSparse -lumfpack -lamd -lcamd -lcolamd -lccolamd -lcxsparse -llapack -lcblas -lf77blas -latlas -lfftw3 -lfftw3f -lqrupdate -larpack -lreadline  -lncurses -lhdf5 -lz -lm  -L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib/gcc45/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin10/4.5.4 -L/opt/local/lib/gcc45/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin10/4.5.4/../../.. -lhdf5 -lz -lm -lgfortran -L/opt/local/lib -lfltk_gl -framework AGL -framework OpenGL -lfltk -lpthread -framework Carbon -framework ApplicationServices -L/opt/local/lib -lfreetype -lz -lbz2
> :info:build ld: warning: ignoring file /opt/local/lib/libfltk_gl.dylib, file was built for unsupported file format which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
> :info:build ld: warning: ignoring file /opt/local/lib/libfltk.dylib, file was built for unsupported file format which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64)
> :info:build Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
> [/code]
> 
> Any hints how I can get past this issue?
> I don't remember installing libfltk. Maybe it's left over from other installs. 
> Is it safe to remove and attempt another install ? Can I find out if it's used by anything else ?

This is https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34987 ; see that ticket for the workaround.