Hi, As some of you know, I have been trying to update the octave port in OpenBSD, as I would like to use it's glpk support for linear optimisation problems.
I have been working with John Eaton (upstream) on this and we almost have a working build but there is a toolchain issue regarding the mixing of g77 libraries (in particular, blas and lapack) with gcc4 objects. See this: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?34725 I am not confident enough to make such a big change alone, so lets have some input from some of the senior porters: * Can the GCC4 arches use gfortran by default instead of g77? Looking at fortran.port.mk, g77 is always default, however I notice some ports forcing g77 anyway. Perhaps a hangover from a legacy? * If the above point were possible, octave could be marked for gcc4 only (either lang/gfrotran for gcc4 arches or lang/gcc/4.x for non gcc4 arches; see fortran.port.mk for how i arrived at this logic) I am going to try building blas and lapack with gfortran to verify this really is the issue, because as it stands, this is just a hunch. I'm CCing upstream and steven@ (who imported lang/gfortran). Cheers -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk
