I have now created a working octave-forge port for FreeBSD. You can
find it at
http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen/octave-forge/
Please use the latest version.
To make it:
cd /usr/ports
tar xvfz oct-fg-port-0.4.tar.gz
cd math/octave-forge
make install clean
To delete it:
pkg_delete -r octave-forge-base-0.1
It wraps the FreeBSD packaging system around the octave packaging
system. This is fairly straightforward, although when things go wrong,
they can go very wrong (hence the octave-forge-base port, whose deletion
gives one a completely fresh slate).
I haven't done a punishing test to make sure that all the subports
properly bring in their dependencies, although I have made a lot of
effort to see that it does. But if someone has a ready made testbed to
check for this, I would really appreciate it if they could test this for me.
It is implemented as a meta port. So if any part of octave forge gets
updated, it should be fairly straightforward to update that part in the
ports system.
The only packages I didn't get to build were database, java and
jhandles. If someone else could do these for me I would appreciate it.
I also did not get octcdf to build, because it requires a newer
version of netcdf than FreeBSD currently has in the ports.
I haven't done any kind of excessive testing to see whether they run
properly. So if people could do that to, I would really appreciate it.
All I checked was ode45 (which really was the only reason I wanted
octave-forge working on FreeBSD).
Unless I get suggestions to the contrary, I'll probably submit it to the
FreeBSD project as a PR in a week or so.
Stephen
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