Problem compiling / installing octave

Elias Pipping pipping at macports.org
Fri Apr 20 08:59:58 PDT 2007


On Apr 20, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Mark Duling wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> on Friday, April 20, 2007 at  
> 12:44
> AM -0800 wrote:
>>> I'm having trouble installing octave. I keep getting the following
>>> error message:
>>>
>>> stephen-dones-computer:~ srdone$ sudo port install octave
>>> --->  Configuring gmp
>>> Error: Target com.apple.configure returned: can't read
>>> "configure.cflags": no such variable
>>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gcc42 gmp  
>>> libiconv
>>> mpfr glpk gnuplot expat fontconfig freetype zlib gd2 jpeg libpng
>>> ncurses ncursesw pdflib readline teTeX gawk gettext ghostscript gsed
>>> texi2html texinfo hdf5 pcre
>>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>>
>> configure.cflags is new... Are you running MacPorts 1.4.3? If not,
>> please "sudo port selfupdate" to get it, then try again.
>
> Wait a minute.  I'm getting the same error.  Apparently,  
> configure.cflags
> is not in MP 1.4.3.  I used it in a port also.
>
> Mark

If that is the case I apologize for bugging you to use  
configure.cflags instead of configure.env the other day ;)


Regards,

Elias



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