[ydl-gen] Scilab for linux ppc

[Warren Nagourney]

Thanks, Derick,

Actually, I feel the same as you about OS X and intel - I have  
absolutely no interest in the latter and am becoming increasingly  
annoyed at the former (a friend describes its performance as having a  
certain "viscosity" - as though one is swimming through thick honey...)

I tried yum using the "standard" repositories with no luck. In order  
to compile scilab, one needs g77 which also seems to be unavailable  
using yum. I am a little new to YDL (I was heavily into linux about 6  
years ago, before OS X came on the scene. I couldn't stand OS9) and  
need to become accustomed to the better sources of apps for ppc  
linux. I would have thought that g77 was a standard app and would be  
in the popular places.

Thanks again.

-wn



On Dec 7, 2006, at 9:56 PM, Derick Centeno wrote:

> On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:45:00 -0800
> Warren Nagourney <warren at phys.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Derick,
>>
>> I downloaded the sources from www.scilab.org and attempted to compile
>> them under OS X (using gcc 4). They claimed to be configured for a
>> general unix distribution, so it should have worked (I ran configure
>> first and it seemed to detect the system fine). I can try the same
>> thing on my linux box and see whether it would work (the problem was
>> an incompatibility between some Apple header and a scilab header  
>> file).
>>
>> Could it be obtained using yum? I thought scilab was a little too
>> arcane for the standard yum repositories.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -wn
>>
>
> Hi Warren:
>
> I've pretty much abandoned OS X as a development platform.  I'm not  
> interested
> in Intel.  OS X runs awfully slow on a PowerPC system and gets in  
> the way of
> an otherwise robust architecture.  I'm not the fellow to discuss  
> details of
> OS X or Darwin programming development. If that is what you are  
> interested in
> you could participate with Apple's Developer program and their  
> developer's mail
> list. The questions regarding OS X are discussed in detail there.
>
> I'm committed to the PowerPC platform, and have become rather  
> focused on Linux
> and YDL in particular.
>
> Regarding yum and using it to search for scilab; my own view was  
> that you
> really never know until you try.
>
> If it's not found by yum you may want to try a Debian variant known  
> as Ubuntu
> here:
>
> http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/cgi-bin/download.pl? 
> arch=powerpc&file=pool%2Fmultiverse%2Fs%2Fscilab% 
> 2Fscilab_2.7-13_powerpc.deb&md5sum=d60c05f374539645187b5e6a042ec2bb&ar 
> ch=powerpc&type=main
>
> The only difficulty is that you will have to be familiar with  
> unpacking Debian
> packages.
>
> I got the source from here:
>
> http://www.scilab.org/download/index_download.php?page=release.html
>
> A possible reason sources can't or won't compile within YDL are:
>
> * dependencies may be processor (Intel) specific.
> * library calls may be processor (Intel) specific.
>
> Unfortunately, one won't know which is the case until one attempts  
> to compile
> within the YDL environment one uses.  Read the output as the  
> program attempts
> to  compile.  Anything missing will be listed with warning  
> statements etc.;
> remember to read the documentation included with the source for  
> associated
> programs which should be with the program but which were not  
> included with the
> source.  This is all tedious stuff, but you've come this far so why  
> stop at
> this point.
>
> It may not hurt to ask TSS to include it as a package, in it's  
> mirrors in the
> future. Or that scilab.org develop a package for YDL.  It might be  
> even better
> to get the two entities to acknowledge each other and do us, the  
> users, a favor!
>
> Best wishes... Derick.
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