Re: Can't compile Octave source on Snow Leopard

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 17, 2010, at 10:28 AM, John Swensen wrote:

> 
> On Oct 16, 2010, at 8:51 PM, 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?
>> 
>> Cheers.
>> --------------
>> John Helly, UCSD / San Diego Supercomputer Center / Scripps Institution of 
>> Oceanography, Climate, Atmospheric Science, and Physical Oceanography / +01 
>> 760 840 8660 mobile / stonesteps (Skype) / stonesteps7 (iChat) / 
>> /www.sdsc.edu/~hellyj
>> 
> 
> I recently finally got Octave to build again on Snow Leopard.  I have 
> attached the script that I modified from a recent post on the maintainers 
> list to use the toolchain provided by MacPorts.  Hope this helps, and let me 
> know if you have any other questions.  Make sure to source the file with "." 
> and a space so that the environment variables persists after execution is 
> completed.
> 
> . jarno_build.sh
> make
> 
> John Swensen
> 
> <jarno_build.sh>

I can provide instructions for using Fink as well. However, my current approach 
is more complicated.

Ben