Re: Intel Mac?

A preliminary version of Fink for the Intel architecture is now ready. No binary packages are available, and things are still rough around the edges, but it should be usable if you are patient!

To install, you need to get the file fink-0.24.12.tar.gz from the Sourceforge file release page for Fink, expand the file, and run the command ./bootstrap.sh . At the end of the bootstrap process, run fink selfupdate and you'll get the currently available packages.

At last check, there were about 1750 packages in the "stable" tree, but about 150 of those did not build. When things are truly stable, another annoucement will be made here.

On Mar 7, 2006, at 9:17 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

On 7-Mar-2006, Jonathan Shea wrote:

| I'm _dying_ to get a build working on my new Intel Core-Duo based
| computer, but I haven't even found anything (free) that will compile
| Fortran, much less successfully built octave.
|
| I realize this might be one of those "not as easy as it seems"
| issues, but I thought I'd throw it out there, just in case it wasn't
| happening for lack of requests. If there's anything I can do to help,
| please let me know.

I have no idea how easy or difficult it would be. I'd guess that most
people on the list do not have access to Intel Mac systems. Also,
most people working on Octave are volunteers who do the things they do
because they want to, not because there are requests for features. If
this port is important to you, then please help make it happen by
either doing some of the work yourself or perhaps provide access to a
system for someone who can help but doesn't have a system to work
with.

in any case, what tools are available? Is it not possible to build
GCC on this system?

jwe

Dr. A S Hodel http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~hodelas

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From:	Dr. A S Hodel
Subject:	Re: Intel Mac?
Date:	Wed, 8 Mar 2006 06:27:54 -0600