3.2.0 release. Compile problem on MacOSX

Ben Abbott bpabbott at mac.com
Fri Jun 5 08:36:51 CDT 2009


On Jun 5, 2009, at 7:40 AM, Jean-Francois Cardoso wrote:

> Jaroslav Hajek-2 wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Jaroslav Hajek<highegg at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> hi all,
>>>
>>> since nobody reported serious problems with rc7, excep,
>>
>> with this, I meant "except J.F. Cardoso, whose problems I believe to
>> be caused by a miscompilation".
>
> Jaroslav was right in suspecting too old a gcc.
>
> I am happy to report that the miscompilation on MacOSX
> (leading to test failures related to struct arrays) is fixed
> by upgrading gcc from 4.2 to 4.4.
>
> I do not know what other people do on the Mac wrt octave/gcc.
> My solution was to use the gfortran+gcc binaries
> from http://hpc.sourceforge.net/

For reference, on Mac OSX 10.5.7, I'm using gfortran bundled with gcc  
4.4.

Ben



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