Can't compile Octave source on Snow Leopard

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-Oct-2010, John Helly wrote:

| 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?

What options did you pass to configure?

jwe