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[Al Goldstein]

To: heberf <address@hidden> ?? does this exist?
Subject: Re: f77 on Solaris 2.6

On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, heberf wrote:
Heber

Here are some tips. I can't spare the time to do it for you now. 
1) The sun compilers are much faster than the gnu compilers. I didn't
realize that when I built octave on the sparc platform.
If I were to rebuild octave I'd use the Sun compilers.

A simple solution for you would be to import the free ware g77-gcc.
Then build octave with them. Get a version of gcc that includes g77 and c++.

It's been sometime since I used the sparc platform. The octave was 2.0.8.
If that satisfies you I can move it over for you to download.

..Al

> I just changed Universities and now I'm on a Sun.  I'm trying to compile 
> octave 
> but for some reason the configure script doesn't like the Sun compiler.
> 
> Do I really need f2c or g77?  What is so wierd about the Sun fortran compiler?
> 
> checking for g77... no
> checking for f77... f77
> checking for Fortran libraries...  -R/opt/SUNWspro/lib  -L/opt/SUNWspro/lib 
> -L/opt/SUNWspro/SC4.2/lib -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/usr/lib 
> /opt/SUNWspro/SC4.2/lib/libM77.a -lF77 -lsunmath -lm -lcx
> checking whether f77 uses uppercase external names... ./configure: nm: not 
> found
> no
> checking whether f77 appends underscores to external names... ./configure: 
> nm: 
> not found
> no
> checking whether f77 is the GNU Fortran compiler... no
> checking f77/f2c compatibility... no
> checking for f2c... no
> configure: warning: in order to build octave, you must have a compatible
> configure: warning: Fortran compiler or f2c installed and in your path.
> configure: error: See the file INSTALL for more information.
> 
>