error compiling Octave

[Olivier Le Floch]

Hi !

>> From: "nicos.pavlov at bluewin.ch" <nicos.pavlov at bluewin.ch>
>> Date: August 26, 2009 7:50:38 AM CDT
>> To: <lenorehorner at sbcglobal.net>
>> Subject: RE: error compiling Octave
>> Reply-To: nicos.pavlov at bluewin.ch
>>
>> In the case of Intel (10.5.8, XCode 3.1.3), it is clearly a  
>> compiler problem, where the -arch flag is not understood
>> by the gcc 4.3 compiler.

I believe this issue, only present when compiling with the trunk  
version of macports, is now fixed ?

>> I could successfully compile the Octave port with the variant  
>> "octave +g95".
>>
> Are there any side-effect of using the +g95 variant?

You'll be compiling the g95 port instead of gcc43. This is not  
supposed to be an issue apart from the compile time ;)

> Is there a way to fix the problem with the -arch flag or have the  
> default compiler not be gcc4.3?

If I'm not mistaken, this issue was only present with the trunk  
version of macports, and was linked to changes in macport's platform  
support. I've compiled octave successfully on a Mac Intel running  
Leopard and XCode 3.1.3 yesterday, and will be looking into the other  
(remaining) issues shortly. Please specify on the relevant open  
tickets your platform, xcode and mac os X version, and attach full  
error reports if compiling doesn't work.

Thanks,

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Olivier Le Floch AKA Alakazam