Re: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite

[Alexander Hansen]

On Apr 27, 2016, at 16:58, Sunil Shah <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Ben,

In following your instructions on octave 4.0.1 on fink, it worked fine till step 7).   

When I issued fink install gcc5, it failed.  I saw that on fink mailing list, others had a similar problem (though for gcc 5.2.0.2).  The latest gcc5 in fink is gcc 5.3.0.1.  So I am trying the remedy in the mailing list, to remove fink's make and retrying gcc5 install.  

https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/message/34537356/

I suppose if that works, should I reinstall fink make before proceeding with your steps 8)-12) ?   

Thanks,

Sunil

You should only need a Fink make for packages which explicitly require a newer make than what Xcode provides.  And as of fink-0.39.2, the default Fink package build script uses Xcode’s make. 

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