Re: Octave 3.2.2 for Ubuntu9.04 -- How to compile from sources

[Judd Storrs]

In case anyone else if having this problem, off the list we found that
the fort77 package was causing trouble when building on Ubuntu 9.04.

When fort77 is installed then ./configure prefers f77 over gfortran.
In the config.log that was posted previously
(http://www.nabble.com/file/p25895104/config.log) we noticed this:

WARNING: cannot determine how to obtain linking information from f77

I'm not familiar with the fort77 package. Anyway, removing fort77
followed re-running ./confugure (and make clean) appears to have
solved the problem. It may be good enough to

F77=gfortran ./configure

instead of removing fort77 but I don't think that was tried.

--judd


On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:40 AM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 22-Oct-2009, Judd Storrs wrote:
>
> | $ sudo apt-get install build-dep octave3.0
> |
> | give any errors on your system?
>
> I expect it would, because it would try to install the packages
> build-dep and octave3.0.  I think you mean
>
>  $ sudo apt-get build-dep octave3.0
>
> jwe
>