Re: Installing on OSX i386: invalid assignment to cs-list outside multiple assignment

[Alexander Hansen]

On 4/17/12 12:49 AM, Joel Nothman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> An Octave-help thread in November was titled 'Can't install 
> octave-forge packages in a 32-bit OS X build, but can in a 64-bit one'.
>
> It presented an issue where the 'invalid assignment to cs-list outside 
> multiple assignment' error occurred where it should not.
>
> For example:
> > x = [];
> > x(1).a1 = 1;
> > x(2).a1 = 2;
> > x(1).a2 = 3;
> error: ...
>
> It was resolved for Fink's octave-3.6.1.info by using CXXFLAGS=-O0 
> when compiling Octave 3.4.3 on OS X 10.5 (32 bit).
>
>
> I am experiencing the same problem in Octave 3.4.3 and 3.6.1, but I am 
> attempting to use Homebrew rather than Fink.
>
> I have tried adding
>   ENV['CXXFLAGS'] = '-O0' if !ENV.m64
> prior to system calls to configure and make (at 
> https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/octave.rb:73).
>
> This results in:
>
> configure: error: your Fortran compiler must have an option to make 
> integers the same size as octave_idx_type (int).  See the file INSTALL 
> for more information.
>
> I can't find any relevant information in INSTALL (but will admit I've 
> not read its every word).
>
> Could you please help me getting this compiled and operating correctly?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Joel
I'd check the config.log file, too.

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