Re: Effects of Fink / MacPorts [was: PCRE library requirement]

[Jarno Rajahalme]

On Feb 3, 2011, at 15:02 , ext Ben Abbott wrote:

> 
> On Feb 3, 2011, at 7:51 AM, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>> 
>> I have had no problem linking Octave compiled with gcc-4.2 with libraries 
>> (C, fortran) build with later gcc/gfortran versions. But I have been 
>> building 64-bit only,  so we a re likely seeing different problems... 
>> 
>> Jarno
> 
> Ok, you've corrected my understanding of the problem a bit.
> 
> Have you tried to build octave using gcc-4.2.1 in combination with gfortran > 
> 4.2? This is what did not work for me.

No, I have always assumed that to not work :-) Trying it out.. it fails on 
libstdc++ problems I have seen before (libgfortran pulls in newer libstdc++ and 
calls to different libstdc++ versions get mixed up.). For the dependencies this 
does not seem to be a problem, however.

  Jarno