From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Oct 19 03:13:39 1997
Subject: Re: Unidentified subject!
From: Vincent Cautaerts <vincent at kid2 dot comm dot eng dot osaka-u dot ac dot jp>
To: jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
CC: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 16:12:09 +0900

Hello,

-> On 18-Oct-1997, Vincent Cautaerts <vincent at kid2 dot comm dot eng dot osaka-u dot ac dot jp> wrote:
-> 
-> | Bug report for Octave 2.0.9 configured for i586-pc-linux-gnu

-> ...[snipped]

-> | One more remark: I first compiled "octave" without having DejaGnu installed,
-> | and couldn't run the "make check". Installing "DejaGnu" only did not allow
-> | me either to run it.
-> 
-> That's because configure checks for runtest.  Adding a definition for
-> RUNTEST in Makeconf should be enough to allow you to run `make check'
-> after installing dejagnu.
-> 
-> | Re-running "configure" just introduced errors.
-> 
-> Can you provide details?  I don't have any problems running configure
-> again after Octave has been compiled.
-> 

Well, what I did was:
1) ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-dl --enable-shared \
               --enable-lite-kernel
  Note the prefix was only "/usr" not "/usr/local/lib"
2) make #took about 2 hours
3) make check #make said something like "DejaGnu is not installed"
4) Installed DejaGnu
5) make check #Still same message "DejaGnu is not installed"
6) ./configure
7) make check
Here, the linker could not find the libraries. They had not been
installed, nt anywhere...
8) cp liboctave.so /usr/lib
9) same for the other ".so" libs
10) ldconfig
11) make check
 #I received a message of some missing symbols from the linker
 #I did not wrote them, so I can't say you which functions it was. Sorry

After this, I erased all reference of octave from my computer,
and re-untarred the source, configure and compile it, with
a "--prefix=/usr/local"
(with dejaGnu installed from the beginning).
It seems to be working all right now.

Thanks for making this great soft.