Installing Octave on Snow Leo

Mojca Miklavec mojca at macports.org
Sat Jan 20 06:55:02 UTC 2018


On 20 January 2018 at 04:24, Uli Wienands wrote:
> I am trying to install Octave on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
>
> Running sudo port install octave the first time (after selfupdate) updates a bunch of already installed deps. It then chokes on installing something called netpbm.
>
> Futzing around a little but not getting anywhere. Finally I do a port clean octave followed by another try to install.
>
> This time nothing seems to get installed but it dies again on netpbm. Trying to read the log but cannot make heads and tails of it.

:info:build Undefined symbols:
:info:build   "_strnlen", referenced from:
:info:build       _main in sldtoppm.o
:info:build ld: symbol(s) not found

Maybe including the snowleopardfixes PortGroup would help.

Mojca


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