Can't compile Octave source on Snow Leopard

[John Helly]

Hi.

It seems that I can't compile the source code since:

...
checking how to get verbose linking output from gfortran... -v
checking for Fortran 77 libraries of gfortran...  
-L/usr/local/lib/gcc/i386-apple-darwin9.1.0/4.2.2 
-L/usr/local/lib/gcc/i386-apple-darwin9.1.0/4.2.2/../../.. -lm -lgfortranbegin 
-lgfortran
checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... none
checking for Fortran 77 name-mangling scheme... unknown
configure: WARNING: unknown Fortran name-mangling scheme
configure: defining FFLAGS to be -O
checking whether gfortran generates correct size integers... no
configure: error: your Fortran compiler must have an option to make integers 
the same size as octave_idx_type (int).  See the file INSTALL for more 
information.

I have a binary download running but it doesn't include textread and after 
obtaining the io package I assume I have to be able to compile the whole system 
from scratch since it looks like the io package wants the development 
environment of octave to compile.

Does anyone know how to work around the Fortran problem on Snow Leopard?

Cheers.
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On Oct 16, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Liam Groener wrote:

Unless you are using the development version of Octave, you need to install the 
io package from Octave-Forge to get text read.

Liam G.

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On Oct 16, 2010, at 11:31 AM, John Helly <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Environment: OSX 10.6.4, Octave 3.2.3
> 
> I'm just trying to switch from Matlab to Octave and am having trouble with 
> replacing textscan with textread.  I've checked the usual places for info and 
> am under the impression that textread should exist and work but it doesn't 
> seem to exist.  Where am I going wrong?  
> 
> octave-3.2.3:1> textread()
> error: `textread' undefined near line 1 column 1
> octave-3.2.3:1> 
> 
> Cheers.
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