Installing PVM under MacPorts on Leopard

Mitch Chapman

2008-02-10 16:16

I've been having trouble getting PVM 3.4.5 to install under MacPorts on Leopard. The conf/DARWIN.def configuration file defines the FAKEXDRFLOAT preprocessor symbol; it may be needed for OS X 10.4, but it causes a compiler error w. GCC 4.0.1 under 10.5:

../../src/pmsg.c:785: error: static declaration of 'xdr_float' follows non-static declaration.

The workaround is simple: install the Darwin8 variant.

$ sudo port install pvm +darwin_8