Installing Octave on Snow Leo

[Bill Cole]

On 20 Jan 2018, at 15:55 (-0500), Uli Wienands wrote:

> I have gcc up to 7 and I don't think clang works particularly well 
> with Snow Leo.

How so? Xcode for SL includes clang:

bigsky:~ root# uname -a
Darwin bigsky.scconsult.com 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 
  7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
bigsky:~ root# /usr/bin/clang --version
Apple clang version 1.7 (tags/Apple/clang-77) (based on LLVM 2.9svn)
Target: i386-apple-darwin10
Thread model: posix

> (I also don't think clang 5 would build on Snow Leo).

It has worked fine for me.

The worst problem generally on SL is the trickle of creeping C++11 
dependencies that have made it essentially mandatory to do this: 
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/LibcxxOnOlderSystems and then hack around 
breakage in ports like lz4 that blindly ignore the MacPorts tweaks that 
can allow them to build.

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