Fail to build octave with GCC 4.1.2

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 07:39:17 CDT 2009


On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 11:00:45PM -0700, RickG wrote:
> 
> The same thing happened to me in Ubuntu 9.04.  The problem is that the
> library libg2c, which is needed by GNU Fortran 77 code, was not loaded
> or linked.

Why don't you use gfortran instead of g77?


> Then the problem of getting it to link.  I got it to work, but
> somebody should install an option in the configure process for GNU
> Fortran that deals with this.

If you are using gfortran, then you shouldn't need g77 and libg2c.

	Thomas


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