Re: Install on OSX Maverics

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 18, 2014, at 11:43 PM, Louis Ciotti <address@hidden> wrote:

> I am trying to install octave on my new macbook using macports.  It fails 
> with the following errors:
> 
> Error: org.macports.configure for port atlas returned: Atlas could not detect 
> any fortran compiler. If you really don’t need the fortran interface to be 
> built, please use the +nofortran option, else install a fortran compiler 
> (e.g. gcc4X) before building Atlas.
> Error: Failed to install atlas
> Please see the log file for port atlas for details:
>    
> /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_atlas/atlas/main.log
> Error: The following dependencies were not installed: atlas bison epstool 
> ghostscript jbig2dec libpaper fftw-3 fftw-3-single flex gawk readline gcc48 
> glpk gnuplot aquaterm lua wxWidgets-3.0 wxWidgets_select gperf grep gsed 
> hdf5-18 less pstoedit ImageMagick djvulibre plotutils qhull qrupdate texinfo 
> texlive-latex texlive-basic texlive-bin harfbuzz-icu icu libzzip t1lib 
> texlive-common xorg-libXp xorg-printproto transfig
> To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
>    http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
> Error: Processing of port octave failed
> 
> I installed GCC4.9 and GFortran4.9 from this site http://hpc.sourceforge.net/ 
> still have the same error.

I have Octave from MacPorts installed.  The command below worked for me.  
Regarding your error, it looks as if there is now gcc requirement included in 
the portfile.  I've been explicitly requiring gcc 4.8.

        sudo port install octave +atlas+docs+fltk+gcc48+x11

Ben