Re: Install on OSX Maverics

[Louis Ciotti]

I had installed GCC outside of macports.  The method I used installed GCC in 
/usr/local

How long before 3.8 do you think before 3.8 arrives on macports?

On Feb 22, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 22, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Louis Ciotti <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Feb 19, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Feb 18, 2014, at 11:43 PM, Louis Ciotti <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I am trying to install octave on my new macbook using macports.  It fails 
>>>> with the following errors:
>>>> 
>>>> Error: org.macports.configure for port atlas returned: Atlas could not 
>>>> detect any fortran compiler. If you really don’t need the fortran 
>>>> interface to be built, please use the +nofortran option, else install a 
>>>> fortran compiler (e.g. gcc4X) before building Atlas.
>>>> Error: Failed to install atlas
>>>> Please see the log file for port atlas for details:
>>>> /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_math_atlas/atlas/main.log
>>>> Error: The following dependencies were not installed: atlas bison epstool 
>>>> ghostscript jbig2dec libpaper fftw-3 fftw-3-single flex gawk readline 
>>>> gcc48 glpk gnuplot aquaterm lua wxWidgets-3.0 wxWidgets_select gperf grep 
>>>> gsed hdf5-18 less pstoedit ImageMagick djvulibre plotutils qhull qrupdate 
>>>> texinfo texlive-latex texlive-basic texlive-bin harfbuzz-icu icu libzzip 
>>>> t1lib texlive-common xorg-libXp xorg-printproto transfig
>>>> To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
>>>> http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
>>>> Error: Processing of port octave failed
>>>> 
>>>> I installed GCC4.9 and GFortran4.9 from this site 
>>>> http://hpc.sourceforge.net/ still have the same error.
>>> 
>>> I have Octave from MacPorts installed.  The command below worked for me.  
>>> Regarding your error, it looks as if there is now gcc requirement included 
>>> in the portfile.  I've been explicitly requiring gcc 4.8.
>>> 
>>>     sudo port install octave +atlas+docs+fltk+gcc48+x11
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> My problem was how I had installed gcc resulted in it being located in the 
>> incorrect location. 
>> 
>> Final got it installed, the build process was taking forever at atlas, I had 
>> to put the macports dir on the spotlight private list.  After that the build 
>> moved much faster.  
> 
> May I assume you installed a version of gcc independent of macports?  Or did 
> macports install your gcc in the incorrect location?  If the later, did you 
> file a bug report with macports?
> 
> Ben
>