1 | | Several days ago, Octave was updated and I decided it was an optimal time to do a fresh install, as I needed to change a few variants and wanted to make absolutely sure there were no linking problems with components that are optional dependencies of Octave. I had recently noticed vecLibFort and decided to try it out--I am tired of troubleshooting Atlas. [[BR]] |
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3 | | Alas, it would not build. I checked the current Portfile of vecLibFort to make absolutely sure that it had not been revised in the past couple of days since I tried to install it, and found that it is as it was. Perhaps I did something incorrectly, or have something installed that that is interfering, but the vecLibFort has no variants, and I do not use the /usr/share/ directory for anything--it is empty; nor do I have a Fink/Homebrew package manager. [[BR]] |
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5 | | Thus, the problem seems to be that I have[[BR]] |
6 | | a) installed some MacPorts package that caused the failure, [[BR]] |
7 | | b) used the wrong compiler, or[[BR]] |
8 | | c) vecLibFort does not run out-of-the-box on a 10.5.8, PPC 7450 |
| 1 | Several days ago, Octave was updated and I decided it was an optimal time to do a fresh install, as I needed to change a few variants and wanted to make absolutely sure there were no linking problems with components that are optional dependencies of Octave. I had recently noticed vecLibFort and decided to try it out--I am tired of troubleshooting Atlas |
10 | | By the way, after some research, I have fallen under the impression that it is Apple's 64-bit Accelerate that has bugs, and the old 32-bit version is OK. Am I correct?[[BR]] |
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| 3 | Alas, it would not build. I checked the current Portfile of vecLibFort to make absolutely sure that it had not been revised in the past couple of days since I tried to install it, and found that it is as it was. Perhaps I did something incorrectly, or have something installed that that is interfering, but the vecLibFort has no variants, and I do not use the /usr/share/ directory for anything--it is empty; nor do I have a Fink/Homebrew package manager. |
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| 5 | Thus, the problem seems to be that I have |
| 6 | a. installed some MacPorts package that caused the failure, |
| 7 | b. used the wrong compiler, or |
| 8 | c. vecLibFort does not run out-of-the-box on a 10.5.8, PPC 7450 |
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| 10 | By the way, after some research, I have fallen under the impression that it is Apple's 64-bit Accelerate that has bugs, and the old 32-bit version is OK. Am I correct? |
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