[OS X TeX] Asymptote and Latex for Tiger

[Gerben Wierda]

On Oct 8, 2006, at 14:52 , Gerben Wierda wrote:

> I think I can do this quickly. Just wait a short while for an  
> experimental i-Package.

It was a bit more problematic than it looked initially.

I have prepared an i-Package for Asymptote. This required a bit of  
fiddling as
- Asymptote does require a readline that is newer than what Apple  
ships up to 10.4.8
- Asymptote does require a libc with getopt_long_only() which is  
unavailable on Mac OS X 10.3.9 hence I cannot compile it on my  
standard and only PPC-system as part of my standard `universal  
binary' builds (ppc on 10.3.9, intel on 10.4.8 and then combine the  
results)
- Asymptote can be compiled universal on 10.4.8, but it `requires'  
Hans Boehm's Garbage Collector which cannot be compiled universal in  
one go

Asymptote also `requires' FFTW, the Fast Fourier Transform Library.

However, I was able to solve the real problems of readline/getopt and  
getting it compiled by
- Downloading Hans Boehm's GC library, compiling this on intel 10.4.8  
and ppc 10.3.9 and creating an i-Package for it and installing this.
- Adapting the Makefile and config.h of asymptote to use a system- 
wide GC and to not use readline (so no readline editing of the  
command line arguments)
- Building asy directly on Mac OS X 10.4.8 for i386 ad ppc

And of course I had to install FFTW for which I also made an i-Package.

Hence, there now is
	- An i-Package for FFTW
	- An i-Package for Hans Boehm's Garbage Collection Library
	- An i-Package for Asymptote

G


>
> G
>
> On Oct 8, 2006, at 12:35 , Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
>> On Oct 8, 2006, at 11:28 , Alain Matthes wrote:
>>
>>> Hello :) sorry for my bad english
>>>
>>> I know that's is off topic but Asymptote is a very good soft and  
>>> on Ubuntu
>>> it' a pleasure to work with him and latex.
>>>
>>> I've some difficulties to compile the source on a G5 mono.
>>> Perhaps someone succeeded in doing it and can explain me how to  
>>> proceed
>>
>> I had a quick look. It seems that the readline that ships with Mac  
>> OS X ( eve the most recent one) is old. asymptote assumes a  
>> different readline and compilation fails on the differences.
>>
>> There are two ways forward:
>> - patch asymptote until it matches Apple's readline from 2004 or  
>> better until it can handle older readlines properly when compiling.
>> - install readline from 2005 (this is risky if not performed with  
>> care)
>>
>> A bit more inspection of asymptote (ChangeLog) suggests you can  
>> compile een when readline is not present. You will get a asy that  
>> has no command line editing, but that does work. So, after  
>> configure, I dited Makefile and config.h to remove readline (no - 
>> lreadline in Makefile and the READLINE define commented out in  
>> config.h).
>>
>> After that I got a complete compile. If I was not so busy, I could  
>> probably create an i-Package for it in an hour or so.
>>
>> It may be best to ask the asymptote maintainers to add a --without- 
>> readline option to ./configure
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> G
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