OT Re: AMD64- Solutions

[sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steve Kargl)]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:20:29AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:02:56PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > If you already have matlab code in house, then check out octave.
> > You can find it in ports/math/octave.  I have been able to run 
> > most matlab codes given to me by others with little or no changes.
> 
> Have you used octave on AMD64 by chance?  The port is
> BROKEN="Does not build on amd64 (Shared libraries must be
> compiled with -fPIC)" Do you have a local patch by chance?
> 

I built it outside of the ports system.  Simply downloaded
the tarball and let configure build the Makefile.  octave
appears to work, but I haven't really pushed it very hard.

-- 
Steve