Re: Problem with configure on Intel Mac OS X

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 2, 2007, at 10:27 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  2-Nov-2007, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> | My knowledge of the internals of "./configure" is *very* poor.
> | However, it appears to me that the "--with-f77=/sw/bin/g95"  
> option no
> | longer works as expected.
> |
> | The results of ./configure are below
> |
> | ./configure --prefix=/sw --with-f77=/sw/bin/g95 --infodir='$ 
> {prefix}/
> | share/info' --mandir='${prefix}/share/man' --libexecdir='${prefix}/
> | lib' --enable-shared --enable-dl --disable-static --build=i386- 
> apple-
> | darwin
>
> 2007-10-24  John W. Eaton  <address@hidden>
>
>         * configure.in): Delete handling of --with-f2c and --with-f77
>         options.  No need to call OCTAVE_CHECK_EXCLUSIVE_WITH_OPTIONS.
>         Delete all special cases for f2c.
>
> Probably you want to run configure with
>
>   ./configure F77=/sw/bin/g95
>
> You should not need to specify --enable-shared, --enable-dl,
> or --disable-static as those are the defaults.  Your settings for
> --infodir and --mandir are also defaults.  You also should not need to
> specify --build.  What does ./config.guess return?

It returns "i386-apple-darwin8.10.1" ... very nice!

Octave configured without error and is on to make.

You didn't mention --libexecdir='${prefix}/lib' ... is this also the  
default?

Ben