MacBook Pro

Follow the general directions, 2.3.2, above when opening the TAR archive.

• The tested build was done on OSX Sierra, Darwin, kernel 16.1.0, 64 bit system. From the top directory one runs configure with appropriate options. Choose one of the following (note: options start with a double dash “- -“ before the ”with” and a single dash after the “with“:

  configure
  (will use gnuplot5 instead of plplot )

MACBOOK TIPS
The fact that there are more than one package manager that might be used, and that dependencies might be installed in different locations makes a configure script challenging. The following gives the choices that will work with the current configure script when run on a MacBook Pro.

Fink Package Management - Packages are installed under /sw directory. This is very good and avoids conflict with other install locations from other package managers like Homebrew or Macports. The default install location of BSU is /usr/local.

X11 Environment - I installed XQuartz to get X11 running on Darwin. WARNING: if you update your system, you likely will need to reinstall XQuartz since Apple's update procedures may break XQuartz.

GSL: GNU Scientific Library - This test installed GSL using Fink. Configuration builds make files with AM_CFLAG= -I/sw/include and GSL_LIB=-L/sw/lib

Macport installs under /opt directory tree.

Homebrew installs under /usr/local. This can be a problem if BSU is also installed under /usr/local (the default). WARNING: If Octave is installed using Homebrew, it likely will break gfortran for the BSU build.

Fortran and Darwin - Configure tests if Darwin, then compiles most of fortran codes with -static flag, sublibF4 since libsubF4.so does not pass common block /header/ to main programs.