Re: installing octave-2.1.54 on Mac OS X 10.3

[Per Persson]

On Feb 19, 2004, at 20:32, Robert Kirchner wrote:

> When I try to configure the octave-2.1.54 package for installation, I 
> get the following error:
>
> checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... unknown
> configure: error: linking to Fortran libraries from C fails
>
> How do I fix this?

I take it you used fink to install g77, then

./configure --enable-shared --enable-dl --disable-static FLIBS=-lg2c 
LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib

YMMV, g77 is a fragile creature on OS X. I've only tried with g77 
v3.3.2.

Let us know what happens.

HTH,
Per



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