Re: 3.2.0 release. Compile problem on MacOSX

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 5, 2009, at 7:40 AM, Jean-Francois Cardoso wrote:

> Jaroslav Hajek-2 wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Jaroslav Hajek<address@hidden>  
> > wrote:
> > > hi all,
> > >
> > > since nobody reported serious problems with rc7, excep,
> >
> > with this, I meant "except J.F. Cardoso, whose problems I believe to
> > be caused by a miscompilation".
>
> Jaroslav was right in suspecting too old a gcc.
>
> I am happy to report that the miscompilation on MacOSX
> (leading to test failures related to struct arrays) is fixed
> by upgrading gcc from 4.2 to 4.4.
>
> I do not know what other people do on the Mac wrt octave/gcc.
> My solution was to use the gfortran+gcc binaries
> from http://hpc.sourceforge.net/

For reference, on Mac OSX 10.5.7, I'm using gfortran bundled with gcc  
4.4.

Ben