[Gah, botched the subject change] On 9/21/14, 11:04 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > [Changing the subject to make it easier for other folks to find online, > and because octave isn't really relevant to the issue--libmpc3 would > have failed regardless of what you ultimately wanted.] > > On 9/21/14, 9:58 AM, Gordon E. Sarty wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've been trying all weekend to fink install octave. I've managed to >> overcome many errors and failures by running fink selfupdate, fink >> update-all, fink selfupdate-cvs, etc multiple times, I've changed the >> rsysc mirror as per the fink website recommendations (tried both sites >> advertised, only one partially works). > > [You really only need selfupdate-cvs, since nothing we offer can > possibly be more current than that.] > > In short, I've exhausted all the >> possible combinations to make the install work but I cannot get past the >> following error - can you help? >> > > <snip> > >> checking for MPFR... no >> configure: error: libmpfr not found or uses a different ABI (including >> static vs shared). > > <snip> > > The error message suggests that you might have a third-party, > incompatible, MPFR library somewhere, such as in /usr/local. We > generally encourage people to rename that directory temporarily while > they build with Fink, because the compilers are hardcoded to look for > stuff there. I'd check on that possibility first. > > Otherwise, check in > /sw/src/fink.build/libmpc3-1.0.2-1/mpc-1.0.2/build/config.log at about > line 554 to see what the test failure actually is. >
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