Octave 2.1.40 on Mac OS X.2.2

[Thomas W. Finley]

Hey there!  I'm having troubles running the configure script for this new
2.1.40 version, and would appreciate any suggestions!  I'm using Mac OS
10.2.2.

> Install OCTAVE on Mac OS X 10.2.x
> =================================
> 1)  Get octave-2.1.40.tar.gz from http://www.octave.org/download.html
> 
> 2)  Unpack it and run './configure' _without_ arguments unless you know
> exactly what you are doing

That's where I run into trouble.  Others have had this error (or one similar
to it) over time, so this will look familiar:

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checking for Fortran 77 libraries...  -lcrt1.o -lcrtbegin.o
-L/sw/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-apple-darwin6.1/3.1
-L/sw/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-apple-darwin6.1/3.1/../../.. -lm -lfrtbegin -lg2c
-lSystem
checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... unknown
configure: error: linking to Fortran libraries from C fails
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I'd guess C's ability to use Fortran libraries is slightly important.  :)

I've read earlier messages from this list on this subject from September,
and I see that the suggestion of setting flibs as "-L/sw/lib/ -lg2c" was put
forth, but those seem to be there already from the output.  Nevertheless I
also tried --with-FLIBS="-L/sw/lib/ -lg2c" and --with-flibs="-L/sw/lib/
-lg2c"... It always insists on checking for the libraries itself, which I
find puzzling.  Anyway, neither worked.  :(

In case it helps, here's how g77 describes itself through "g77 -v".

=-=-=-=-=-=
Reading specs from /sw/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-apple-darwin6.1/3.1/specs
Configured with: ../gcc3/configure --prefix=/sw --enable-languages=f77
--infodir=${prefix}/share/info
Thread model: single
Apple Computer, Inc. GCC version 1151, based on gcc version 3.1 20020420
(prerelease)
=-=-=-=-=-=

My method for installing fink was just "fink install g77"; I've done work
with it otherwise, and it seems to work just fine.

TIA to anyone for any assistance!

-- 
Thomas Finley, address@hidden
http://www.duke.edu/~twf/



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