eigs and ARPACK

[Thomas Treichl]

Ben Abbott schrieb:
> Any chance you tried gfortran?

I found precompiled binaries of g95 at http://www.g95.org under "G95 Binaries 
and Source (Stable version 0.91, March 2008)" for PPC and i386. These binaries 
should work with MacOSX 10.4.x gcc 4.0.1 and later. It should be possible to set 
up these binaries for both platforms instead of fort77/f2c for Octave.app in the 
future beside the rest of GCC that comes with Apple's XCode tools.

Another idea would be, to tell users to set up the GCC suite that is available 
from the good folks of the R-Project, cf. http://r.research.att.com/tools/ 
instead of Apple's XCode tools. There a gfortran compiler is included. A long 
while ago I tried this suite and I have to say that it works very well (means 
'no' to your question, I haven't tried it yet).

In either case this also would mean to rewrite the build scripts for building 
and packing Octave.app and I don't know how much time I can spend for doing all 
this on my own and if somebody wants to help me with this then this would really 
be a great thing!

Best regards,

   Thomas