If you provide a URL to the software, it's likely that someone will help you sort it out, if you have a bit of patience. There are lots of people like that around here.
Alternatively, and perhaps better, you could open a ticket to request a new port for it, and we can track progress there. If it hasn't seen an update since 2003, enthusiasm will be lower, tho. Ken On 2018-11-23, at 9:40 AM, Mark Brethen wrote: > Version 2.2 was released September 4, 2003. I found a BSD port and trying > their setup with a fortran compiler. Which port should I be using for blas > and lapack? Arpack is currently installed on my system with variants > +accelerate +gfortran +mpich only. > > Mark Brethen > mark.bret...@gmail.com > > > >> On Nov 23, 2018, at 11:19 AM, Ken Cunningham >> <ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> all the standard MacPorts compilers (gcc versions, clang versions) support >> the -faltivec flag. >> >> This flag is only useful on PowerPC systems, which I would be surprised if >> you were targeting. Is that the system you're after? The fact that it's >> still in the config suggests this is a very old piece of software. >> >> BTW, for practical purposes, only gcc versions offer useful PowerPC code >> generation at present. >> >> K >> >> >> >> On 2018-11-23, at 7:38 AM, Mark Brethen wrote: >> >>> Taucs is a C library of sparse linear solvers that is a dependency for >>> calculix-ccx. Looking at its config, it assigns >>> >>> CFLAGS = -O3 -faltivec >>> LIBBLAS = -framework vecLib >>> >>> 1. Is altivec supported in the macports compilers group? >>> 2. There is a vecLib framework in /System/Frameworks but I’m not familiar >>> with it. Would the atlas port suffice for libBlas and libLapack? >>> >>> Mark Brethen >>> mark.bret...@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> >> >