Solution to MacOSX on Intel?

[David Bateman]

Jack Howarth wrote:
> John,
>    Using Apple's gcc/g++ compilers and gfortran from FSF gcc
> 4.2.2 on powerpc-apple-darwin9, I get 8 failures in the
> make check of octave 2.9.18. If I use only the FSF gcc
> 4.2.2 compilers on powerpc-apple-darwin9, I get a bus
> error in test_sparse.m. This bus error doesn't happen with
> the gcc 4.3 snapshot on powerpc-apple-darwin9 so it must
> be a compiler bug in 4.2.2. On i386-apple-darwin9, the
> Apple gcc/g++ compilers cause a bus error in the
> ov_fnct_handle.cc test case during make check. Using
> only the FSF gcc 4.2.2 compilers on i386-apple-darwin9
> eliminates that and yields 7 failures in the make check.
>    How many failures do you get on the linux with gcc 4.2.2
> for octave? I would rather stick with the gfortran compiler
> because it generates code that is significantly faster than
> g95.
>   
What are the failures.. Its hard to tell if they are important without
knowing what they are... Some of the tests are statistical (ie random
functions) and so might fail in some cases


D.


>                  Jack
>
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:51:49AM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
>   
>> On  7-Dec-2007, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>
>> | > In any event, I've successfully built octave using g95 on MacOSX  
>> | > 10.5 on Intel. The details are below.
>>
>> Weren't people complaining that failures were happening with gfortran,
>> not g95?
>>
>> jwe
>>     
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