Re: Configuration issues

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 14, 2012, at 5:43 PM, Alexandre Payeur wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install octave 3.6.1.. When I do ./configure, it produces
> the following error:
> 
> checking for Fortran 77 name-mangling scheme... unknown
> configure: WARNING: unknown Fortran name-mangling scheme
> configure: defining FFLAGS to be -O
> checking whether gfortran generates correct size integers... no
> configure: error: your Fortran compiler must have an option to make
> integers the same size as octave_idx_type (int).  See the file INSTALL for
> more information.
> 
> The INSTALL file doesn't contain any information whatsoever. I searched
> the web for an answer and I found nothing a human can understand.
> 
> I have version 3.4.0. working, but I need a more recent version to use the
> xcorr function.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alexandre Payeur

Are you running MacOS ?

        http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Octave_for_Mac

Ben