Re: Octave on embedde platform

[juliap]

> On 28-Mar-2008, address@hidden wrote:
>
> | Did somebody use f2c option to install Octave, this is the case when you
> | don't have a Fortran compiler. This may help me to install Octave on a
> ppc
> | platform not having Fortran.
>
> Yes, you can use f2c, but you need a wrapper script like the Debion
> fort77 package:  http://packages.debian.org/sid/fort77.  This allows
> you to invoke f2c+gcc as if it were a real Fortran compiler.
>
> Are you using GCC?  If so, why don't you have a Fortran compiler?
>
> jwe
>

We do not have a Fortran compiler on the ppc platform we are running, it
is an embedded platform

Thank you

Julia