[Users] Cactus build problems

[Ian Smith]

On 19/08/14 17:42, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 03:57:00PM +0100, Ian Smith wrote:
>> I've tried building this a few times over the last couple of years, on
>> different machines, and always get stuck at the build stage, currently I
>> have this set of errors:
>
>> $ aptitude search fort | grep '^i'
>> i   fort77                          - Invoke f2c like a real compiler
>> i   gfortran                        - GNU Fortran 95 compiler
>
> This looks like a Debian, or Debian-like system. You could give the
> debian option list a try:
>
> sim build --optionlist debian.cfg
>
> Or manually look at the option list first, for a list of suggested
> packages, in simfactory/mdb/optionlists/debian.cfg
>
> Frank
>

Thanks to you and Erik for replying, I'll give it another go tomorrow, 
and try to provide more info if I can.

Ian.

PS sorry for replying personally, Frank, I haven't done mailing lists 
for a while!