Octave 6.3.0 build

[stevemaser]

Hey all...

We pull down Octave from: https://octave-app.org for deployment here on our Macs. Any ETA on a 6.3.0 installer? Thanks so much!

[apjanke]

ETA this weekend!

Nice to hear from users out there.

[apjanke]

Here's the beta for Octave.app 6.3.0 if you want to give it a test! https://github.com/octave-app/octave-app/releases/tag/v6.3.0-beta1

If no complaints, I'll post the non-beta final release some time tonight US Eastern Time.

[stevemaser]

Seems fine here! Ship away! Thanks!

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[apjanke]

Well crap.

==> meson --prefix=/Applications/Octave-6.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/usr/Cellar/gdk-pixbuf/2.42.6 --libdir=/Appli
Last 15 lines from /Users/janke/Library/Logs/Homebrew/gdk-pixbuf/01.meson:
-Drelocatable=false
-Dnative_windows_loaders=false
-Dinstalled_tests=false
-Dman=false
..

The Meson build system
Version: 0.60.0
Source dir: /private/tmp/gdk-pixbuf-20211025-85146-20av78/gdk-pixbuf-2.42.6
Build dir: /private/tmp/gdk-pixbuf-20211025-85146-20av78/gdk-pixbuf-2.42.6/build
Build type: native build

../meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Unknown options: "gir, x11"

A full log can be found at /private/tmp/gdk-pixbuf-20211025-85146-20av78/gdk-pixbuf-2.42.6/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt

Do not report this issue to Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/core!


Error: A newer Command Line Tools release is available.
Update them from Software Update in System Preferences or run:
  softwareupdate --all --install --force

If that doesn't show you any updates, run:
  sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
  sudo xcode-select --install

Alternatively, manually download them from:
  https://developer.apple.com/download/all/.
You should download the Command Line Tools for Xcode 11.3.1.

No non-beta release tonight; sorry.

[stevemaser]

I only tested that it launched. I don't personally use it, so I wouldn't have caught any operational bugs.

[apjanke]

I ran the test suite and it came out fine, so it looks good to me. Just need to be able to get an actual non-beta build done...

[apjanke]

Oh, just to be clear: that "well crap" error I posted is from the Octave.app build, not while running it. So I currently can't make a non-beta build at all.

[apjanke]

Darnit. Now we've got another problem: Some of the Homebrewed build tools we use are now broken on macOS 10.13 and 10.14: #234

[stevemaser]

(Hey, also, from our end, we don't support anything less than 10.15 now -- if that matters...)

[apjanke]

I'd really like to continue supporting at least 10.14, and preferably 10.13, with Octave.app. Two reasons:

a) We don't do any analytics or user tracking, so we have no idea what OS versions our user base is running, but I have at least some anecdotal reports that some Octave.app users are still on older OSes.
b) I personally am stuck on macOS 10.14 (because I am an Aperture user), and I'd like to be able to run my own software project. ;)

I guess that doesn't stop me from rolling out 10.15-required 6.3.0/6.4.0 builds as a provisional measure until I can get 10.13/10.14 support fixed up, though. I'll give this a try tonight!

[apjanke]

Currently stalled due to upstream issue because the Homebrew ghostscript build is broken: Homebrew/brew#12550

[apjanke]

Homebrew ghostscript is fixed. Now it's busted because Qt 5.15.2 doesn't want to build on macOS 10.15. Might be fixable by just bumping the Qt version.

==> ./configure -verbose -prefix /Applications/Octave-6.3.0.app/Contents/Resources/usr/Cellar/qt-octave-app/5.15
==> make
Last 15 lines from /Users/janke/Library/Logs/Homebrew/qt-octave-app/02.make:
  File "/private/tmp/qt-octave-app-20211211-3079-1y33sbp/qt-everywhere-src-5.15.2/qtwebengine/src/3rdparty/chromium/build/mac/find_sdk.py", line 96, in main
    raise Exception('No %s+ SDK found' % min_sdk_version)
Exception: No 11.1+ SDK found

See //components/nacl/features.gni:9:3: whence it was imported.
  import("//build/config/mac/mac_sdk.gni")
  ^--------------------------------------
See //BUILD.gn:18:1: whence it was imported.
import("//components/nacl/features.gni")
^--------------------------------------
Project ERROR: GN run error!
make[3]: *** [sub-gn_run-pro-make_first] Error 3
make[2]: *** [sub-core-make_first] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-src-make_first] Error 2
make: *** [module-qtwebengine-make_first] Error 2

[apjanke]

Octave.app 8.4 is coming soon! It's building OK, and prerelease alpha builds are up for testing now (here's alpha3), including a new native Apple Silicon build.

Progress tracking for 8.x is over on this ticket: #243. Closing this here ticket as being subsumed by that one; please check over there for further updates. I currently expect a beta prelrease this weekend and the golden release probably next weekend.