Re: f77 on Solaris 2.6

[Daniel Heiserer]

heberf wrote:
> 
> 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

It looks like "nm" is missing, can that be?
try wich nm in the tcsh.




> 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.

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