Octave on Intel Mac

[Mark Duling]

Octave was updated on Saturday at 6:42 AM.  I think if you do a 'port
selfupdate' that it will work for you.  I just installed it on my MacBook
and it installed gcc42 automatically and worked fine.

Mark

"Jason Merrill" <jason.merrill at yale.edu> on Sunday, February 25, 2007 at
5:06 PM -0800 wrote:
>I'm new to this list and fairly new to macports.  I'm trying to
>install octave on an intel mac, but I'm having some trouble.  On my
>first try, the install choked on gcc40.  I did a little poking around
>and found that gcc40 doesn't play well with intel macs, so I tried
>installing gcc42 and was eventually successful.  Every time I try to
>install octave, however, it continues to try and install gcc40, even
>if I add the +darwin_8_i386 variant explictly:
>
>jason-merrills-computer:~ jm843$ sudo port install octave +darwin_8_i386
>Password:
>--->  Building gcc40 with target profiledbootstrap
>Error: Target com.apple.build returned: shell command "cd
>"/opt/local/var/db/dports/build/_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports_lang_gcc40/work/build"
>&& make profiledbootstrap -j 2" returned error 2
>Command output: /var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:11976:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:11995:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12010:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12025:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12040:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12055:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12070:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12085:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12104:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12119:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12134:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12149:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12164:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12179:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12194:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12209:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12224:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12239:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12254:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12269:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12284:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12299:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12314:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12329:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12351:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12366:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12381:indirect jmp without `*'
>/var/tmp//cc5HeHlk.s:12396:indirect jmp without `*'
>make[1]: *** [stageprofile_build] Error 2
>make: *** [profiledbootstrap] Error 2
>
>Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gcc40
>Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
>Any advice would be greatly appreciated.