error compiling Octave

[Lenore Horner]

On Aug 26, 2009, at 08:12 , Olivier Le Floch wrote:

> 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'm not using trunk.  I'm using 1.7.1.
>
>>> 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.
Already done.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Olivier Le Floch AKA Alakazam