Fwd: install of octave not possible?

[Gregory Wright]

>
Hi Marius,

On Dec 14, 2006, at 6:47 AM, Marius Schamschula wrote:

> For what is worth,
>
> As a longtime member of the octave mailing list, and as someone who  
> regularly builds octave without MacPorts or Fink, let me add the  
> current thinking about building octave under Mac OS X 10.4.x:
>
> Apple's gcc 4.0.1 together with g95.org's g95 work well under both  
> PPC and Intel machines for building octave 2.9.9.
>
> In my experience, gfortran has caused lots of problems.
>

Thanks for the information.  I'll give g95 a spin.

Best Wishes,
Greg

> On Dec 14, 2006, at 5:26 AM, Anthony Agelastos wrote:
>
>> On Dec 14, 2006, at 12:09 AM, Andy Kish wrote:
>>>
>>> On Dec 13, 2006, at 6:00 PM, Gregory Wright wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, this is really necessary.  The gcc40 port was built so you  
>>>> would have a gfortran that is
>>>> ABI compatible with your gcc and g++.  Apple does not supply  
>>>> gfortran so MacPorts has to build it.
>>>> (And Octave really does have modules written in c, c++ and  
>>>> fortran :-) )
>>>
>>> Is gcc40 the standard port to depend upon when one needs a  
>>> fortran compiler? The reason for all the current py-scipy bugs on  
>>> trac is that the port doesn't install a fortran compiler as a  
>>> dependancy. I put up a patch for it, but told it to depend upon  
>>> gcc41. Should that be changed to gcc40?
>> I think it should be changed to gcc42 since gcc40 doesn't work on  
>> Intel Macs (last time I checked). I hope this helps.
>>
>> -Anthony
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Andy
>
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