Re: Octave 2.1.40 on Mac OS X.2.2

[Per Persson]

Thomas (and others),
try

        setenv FLIBS '-L/sw/lib/ -lg2c'

before running configure.

/Per


On måndag, nov 25, 2002, at 00:07 Europe/Stockholm, Thomas W. Finley 
wrote:

> Hey there!  I'm having troubles running the configure script for this 
> new
> 2.1.40 version, and would appreciate any suggestions!  I'm using Mac OS
> 10.2.2.
>
> > Install OCTAVE on Mac OS X 10.2.x
> > =================================
> > 1)  Get octave-2.1.40.tar.gz from http://www.octave.org/download.html
> >
> > 2)  Unpack it and run './configure' _without_ arguments unless you 
> > know
> > exactly what you are doing
>
> That's where I run into trouble.  Others have had this error (or one 
> similar
> to it) over time, so this will look familiar:
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=
> checking for Fortran 77 libraries...  -lcrt1.o -lcrtbegin.o
> -L/sw/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-apple-darwin6.1/3.1
> -L/sw/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-apple-darwin6.1/3.1/../../.. -lm -lfrtbegin 
> -lg2c
> -lSystem
> checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... unknown
> configure: error: linking to Fortran libraries from C fails
> =-=-=-=-=-=
>
> I'd guess C's ability to use Fortran libraries is slightly important.  
> :)
>
> I've read earlier messages from this list on this subject from 
> September,
> and I see that the suggestion of setting flibs as "-L/sw/lib/ -lg2c" 
> was put
> forth, but those seem to be there already from the output.

Yes, but unfortunately so are some that shouldn't....

> Nevertheless I
> also tried --with-FLIBS="-L/sw/lib/ -lg2c" and --with-flibs="-L/sw/lib/
> -lg2c"... It always insists on checking for the libraries itself, 
> which I
> find puzzling.  Anyway, neither worked.  :(
>
> In case it helps, here's how g77 describes itself through "g77 -v".
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=
> Reading specs from /sw/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-apple-darwin6.1/3.1/specs
> Configured with: ../gcc3/configure --prefix=/sw --enable-languages=f77
> --infodir=${prefix}/share/info
> Thread model: single
> Apple Computer, Inc. GCC version 1151, based on gcc version 3.1 
> 20020420
> (prerelease)
> =-=-=-=-=-=
>
> My method for installing fink was just "fink install g77"; I've done 
> work
> with it otherwise, and it seems to work just fine.
>
> TIA to anyone for any assistance!
>
> --
> Thomas Finley, address@hidden
> http://www.duke.edu/~twf/
>
>
>
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