configure error 'A BLAS Library was detected...'

[John W. Eaton]

On  7-Aug-2011, Richard Crozier wrote:

| 
| I am attempting to build octave 3.4.2 (from the release source provided on
| the website) in Ubuntu 11.04 (running in VirtualBox on Windows 7 Pro 64
| Bit). I am receiving the following error from configure:
| 
| A BLAS library was detected but was found incompatible with your fortran 77
| compiler settings'
| 
| I have installed gfortran, and also have f2c and the fort77 script
| installed. Can anyone suggest how to fix this?

What did configure detect as the Fortran compiler?

Most likely, you don't want the fort77 script.

You should be using gfortran directly.

You definitely don't need f2c if you have gfortran.

jwe