Re: Install on OSX Maverics

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 22, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Louis Ciotti <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Feb 19, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> My problem was how I had installed gcc resulted in it being located in the 
> incorrect location. 
> 
> Final got it installed, the build process was taking forever at atlas, I had 
> to put the macports dir on the spotlight private list.  After that the build 
> moved much faster.  

May I assume you installed a version of gcc independent of macports?  Or did 
macports install your gcc in the incorrect location?  If the later, did you 
file a bug report with macports?

Ben