Re: Octave 3.6.4-rc0 release candidate available for ftp

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 18, 2012, at 1:05 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 17-Oct-2012, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
> | Appending "-lgfortran" to the libtool command fixed this.  Adding 
> "-lgfortran" to LDFLAGS worked as well.
> 
> That's strange.  Building 3.6.3 from the release tarball works?
> I don't think there have been any changes to the Makefiles since the
> 3.6.3 release.

I'm also able to build using the sources directly from savannah.  Weird.

> Instead of adding -lgfortran, I think the right thing to do is to add
> $(FLIBS) in the LIBOCTAVE_LINK_DEPS list in liboctave/link-deps.mk.
> But I'm surprised this problem is just showing up now.
> 
> jwe


I'm surprised as well.  Perhaps we should leave it alone until someone else 
confirms?  (maybe something is wrong on my end?)

Ben