error

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Jul-2009, Subhasis Kumar Pal wrote:

| Sir, 
| 
|   I am getting following error. Please see and send replay as early as 
possible. 

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| p570:/data1/subhasis/octave-3.2.0 # ./configure
| checking build system type... powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu

| checking for g77... no
| checking for xlf... xlf
| checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
| checking whether xlf accepts -g... yes
| checking how to get verbose linking output from xlf... -v
| ...

XLF works on powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu systems?

| p/1.8/lib -L/opt/ibmcmp/xlmass/5.0/lib -L/opt/ibmcmp/xlf/12.1/lib 
-R/opt/ibmcmp
| lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc64-suse-linux/4.1.2 
-L/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc64-suse-lin
| x/4.1.2/../../../../powerpc64-suse-linux/lib/../lib 
-L/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc64-su
| e-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib -L/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/../lib 
-L/usr/lib/gcc/po
| erpc64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../powerpc64-suse-linux/lib 
-L/usr/lib/gcc/pow
| rpc64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../.. -lz -lm -lfreetype -lGL -lGLU -lxlf90 -lxlopt 
-
| xlomp_ser -lxl -lxlfmath -ldl -lrt -lpthread
| checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... unknown
| configure: error: linking to Fortran libraries from C fails
| See `config.log' for more details.

Well, apparently not.

Did you look at config.log to see what the error is?

Maybe you should use gfortran instead.  Try running configure with

  ./configure F77=gfortran

jwe