Re: GNU Octave 3.4.0 Released (Mac OSX?)

[Richard Campbell]

On Feb 14, 2011, at 2:11 PM, Thane Norton wrote:

> I was unclear. The Accelerate framework was launched when f2c was the 
> standard Fortran for OSX, so it used the calling conventions from that for 
> its BLAS and LAPACK. gfortran, by default, uses a newer convention, but can 
> be told to use the f2c convention with the -ff2c flag. My info is gathered 
> from here:
> 
> http://www.macresearch.org/lapackblas-fortran-106#comment-17071
> 
> I used gfortran 4.5.0 downloaded off the gfortran site. FYI: I just saw the 
> comments from January about using -m32 to compile. I will be trying that 
> tonight. I would try it now, but my work setup is different enough that my 
> old instructions don't work. I can't go into details, but none of you will 
> have to worry about those problems for many months.
> 
> On Feb 14, 2011, at 5:13 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 14, 2011, at 1:59 AM, Thane Norton wrote:
>> 
>>> So, I spent some time doing some research, and I got farther. First off, 
>>> the problem with gfortran and the Apple libraries is not that the libraries 
>>> have changed. It is that gfortran did.
>> 
>> Can you provide so more info? What is it that changed in gfortran? Where did 
>> you get your gfortran and what version?
> 
> -
> Thane Norton
> 
> 
> 
> 

Okay see this is why we need to get the BLASWRAP patch pushed. What's the 
holdup again?