failed build with current mercurial sources

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 9, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Thomas Treichl wrote:

> Ben Abbott schrieb:
>>> Well, that's interesting. It suggests that the problem might not  
>>> be in the
>>> QR updating stuff at all ...
>> I need to try to reproduce this error. I may have done something  
>> silly, like forgetting to "make clean" before attempting another  
>> build.
>
> Hi again,
>
> sorry for being so late. I have two ideas left that you can try but  
> without being sure if anything helps:
>
> 1) do a 'make uninstall' before doing 'make check'. There may be  
> older libs left in your /sw directory that might be used eventually.  
> After 'make uninstall' there should nothing be left in your /sw/lib / 
> sw/libexec /sw/bin /sw/share concerning octave - otherwise delete  
> manually.
>
> 2) Some time ago you have used g95 instead of gfortran. Do you have  
> that g95 program still available on your Mac?
>
>  Thomas

For this problem, I've been building outside of FInk ... but have  
preserved their configure options. Thus, there is no "make install"  
that needs to be reversed. I then run in the build directory using ./ 
run-octave.

I like the idea of g95, but I was never successful getting it work  
properly/completely before. The reason being, Fink uses gfortran to  
build the dependencies, and using g95 to compile octave resulted in  
some conflict (or so that was the conclusion).

In any event, it does make sense to give g95 a try ... I expect we'll  
learn something from the attempt.

Ben