Error compiling Octave-3.4.1 on Ubuntu-10.04-LTS

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Jun-2011, YuHong wrote:

| 
| 
| May I have a question about compiling Octave-3.4.1-source on 
Ubuntu-10.04-LTS? 
| The error message follows:
| 
| libtool: compile:  f77 -O -mieee-fp -c arpack/src/cgetv0.f  -fPIC -o 
arpack/src
| /.libs/libcruft_la-cgetv0.o
|    cgetv0:
| Cannot open file debug.h
| /usr/bin/f77: aborting compilation
| make[2]: *** [arpack/src/libcruft_la-cgetv0.lo] Error 1
| 
| Under the directory 'libcruft', the compilation tried to invoke 'f77' to
| compile fortran source 'arpack/src/cgetv0.f'.  The file 'cgetv0.f' need file
| 'debug.h'.  However, 'arpack/src/cgetv0.f' was not included successfully.  So 
I
| look forward to suggestions on the fortran-related error in compilation. 
| Thanks a lot!

I don't know what /usr/bin/f77 is, but I think you want to use
gfortran instead.

jwe