From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Dec 9 12:51:40 1998 Subject: Unidentified subject! From: Gary Holt To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 10:51:37 -0800 To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Subject: .oct files for 2.1.11 on linux---rdynamic needed? Bug report for Octave 2.1.11 configured for %CANONICAL_HOST_TYPE% Description: ----------- Although I do have a shared version of libstdc++ (as the "installation problems" section of the info file suggests), when I build the oregonator.cc example from the octave distribution, octave can't load it (see transcript below). I had to modify src/Makefile to add -rdynamic to the link options, and then it worked fine. Repeat-By: --------- % mkoctfile oregonator.cc % octave Octave, version 2.1.11 (i686-pc-linux-gnu). Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 John W. Eaton. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details, type warranty'. *** This is a development version of Octave. Development releases *** are provided for people who want to help test, debug, and improve *** Octave. *** *** If you want a stable, well-tested version of Octave, you should be *** using one of the stable releases (when this development release *** was made, the latest stable version was 2.0.13). LOADPATH = :/cit/holt/src/octave:/cit/holt/work/Spike:/cit/holt/work/Spike/alpha octave:1> oregonator([1 1 1], 0) octave: error in loading shared libraries /disks/laguna/holt/tarfiles/octave-2.1.11/examples/oregonator.oct: undefined symbol: check_version__FRCt12basic_string3ZcZt18string_char_traits1ZcZt24__default_alloc_template2b1i0T0 % ldd /usr/local/bin/octave libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40010000) libncurses.so.3.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.4 (0x40029000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4006e000) libstdc++.so => /usr/local/lib/libstdc++.so (0x40073000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400aa000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) Fix: ---- Just add -rdynamic to the list of link options when building the actual octave binary in src/Makefile, like this: octave: octave.o builtins.o ops.o $(DLD_STATIC_OBJ) libraries $(CXX) -rdynamic $(CPPFLAGS) $(ALL_CXXFLAGS) $(ALL_LDFLAGS) -o octave \ octave.o builtins.o ops.o $(DLD_STATIC_OBJ) \ $(OCTAVE_LFLAGS) \ $(OCTAVE_LIBS) \ $(FLIBS) $(LEXLIB) $(TERMLIBS) $(LIBS) I don't understand the maze of makefiles so I don't know which makefile this belongs in. (And obviously we don't want to do this under all circumstances. I don't know what operating systems -rdynamic is necessary for, but it seems to be necessary for my linux system.) Does everyone else need this on linux, or is there something peculiar about my system? (It's a standard debian 2.0, with the latest egcs compiler.) What does -rdynamic do, anyway? Configuration (please do not edit this section): ----------------------------------------------- uname output: Linux kelp 2.1.125 #3 SMP Wed Oct 21 11:08:23 PDT 1998 i686 unknown configure opts: --prefix=/usr/local/stow/octave-2.1.11 Fortran compiler: g77 FFLAGS: -O F2C: F2CFLAGS: FLIBS: -lg2c -lm -L/usr/local/stow/egcs-1.1b-pgcc/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/pgcc-2.91.57 -L/usr/local/stow/egcs-1.1b-pgcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib -L/usr/local/stow/egcs-1.1b-pgcc/lib -lm CPPFLAGS: INCFLAGS: -I/usr/local/stow/octave-2.1.11/include/octave-2.1.11/octave -I/usr/local/stow/octave-2.1.11/include C compiler: gcc, version 2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release) CFLAGS: -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -g -O2 -Wall CPICFLAG: -fPIC C++ compiler: c++, version 2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release) CXXFLAGS: -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fno-implicit-templates -g -O2 -Wall CXXPICFLAG: -fPIC LDFLAGS: -g LIBFLAGS: -L/usr/local/stow/octave-2.1.11/lib/octave-2.1.11 RLD_FLAG: -Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker /usr/local/stow/octave-2.1.11/lib/octave-2.1.11 TERMLIBS: -lncurses LIBS: LEXLIB: LIBPLPLOT: LIBDLFCN: LIBGLOB: ./glob/libglob.a DEFS: -DOCTAVE_SOURCE=1 -DSEPCHAR=':' -DSEPCHAR_STR=":" -DUSE_READLINE=1 -D__NO_MATH_INLINES=1 -DCXX_NEW_FRIEND_TEMPLATE_DECL=1 -DF77_APPEND_UNDERSCORE=1 -DSIZEOF_SHORT=2 -DSIZEOF_INT=4 -DSIZEOF_LONG=4 -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H=1 -DHAVE_ALLOCA=1 -DNPOS=string::npos -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=1 -DHAVE_ASSERT_H=1 -DHAVE_CURSES_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL_H=1 -DHAVE_FLOAT_H=1 -DHAVE_FNMATCH_H=1 -DHAVE_GLOB_H=1 -DHAVE_GRP_H=1 -DHAVE_LIMITS_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_NAN_H=1 -DHAVE_NCURSES_H=1 -DHAVE_PWD_H=1 -DHAVE_SGTTY_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SELECT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIMES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_UTSNAME_H=1 -DHAVE_TERMCAP_H=1 -DHAVE_TERMIO_H=1 -DHAVE_TERMIOS_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_VARARGS_H=1 -DHAVE_ATEXIT=1 -DHAVE_BCOPY=1 -DHAVE_BZERO=1 -DHAVE_DUP2=1 -DHAVE_ENDGRENT=1 -DHAVE_ENDPWENT=1 -DHAVE_EXECVP=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL=1 -DHAVE_FORK=1 -DHAVE_GETCWD=1 -DHAVE_GETEGID=1 -DHAVE_GETEUID=1 -DHAVE_GETGID=1 -DHAVE_GETGRENT=1 -DHAVE_GETGRGID=1 -DHAVE_GETGRNAM=1 -DHAVE_GETHOSTNAME=1 -DHAVE_GETPGRP=1 -DHAVE_GETPID=1 -DHAVE_GETPPID=1 -DHAVE_GETPWENT=1 -DHAVE_GETPWNAM=1 -DHAVE_GETPWUID=1 -DHAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY=1 -DHAVE_GETUID=1 -DHAVE_GETWD=1 -DHAVE_LSTAT=1 -DHAVE_MEMMOVE=1 -DHAVE_MKDIR=1 -DHAVE_MKFIFO=1 -DHAVE_ON_EXIT=1 -DHAVE_PIPE=1 -DHAVE_PUTENV=1 -DHAVE_RENAME=1 -DHAVE_RINDEX=1 -DHAVE_RMDIR=1 -DHAVE_SETGRENT=1 -DHAVE_SETPWENT=1 -DHAVE_SETVBUF=1 -DHAVE_SIGACTION=1 -DHAVE_SIGPENDING=1 -DHAVE_SIGPROCMASK=1 -DHAVE_SIGSUSPEND=1 -DHAVE_STAT=1 -DHAVE_STRCASECMP=1 -DHAVE_STRDUP=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE_STRFTIME=1 -DHAVE_STRNCASECMP=1 -DHAVE_TEMPNAM=1 -DHAVE_UMASK=1 -DHAVE_UNLINK=1 -DHAVE_USLEEP=1 -DHAVE_VFPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_WAITPID=1 -DSMART_PUTENV=1 -DHAVE_LIBDL=1 -DHAVE_DLOPEN=1 -DHAVE_DLSYM=1 -DHAVE_DLERROR=1 -DHAVE_DLCLOSE=1 -DWITH_DL=1 -DWITH_DYNAMIC_LINKING=1 -DHAVE_TIMEVAL=1 -DHAVE_LIBM=1 -DHAVE_FINITE=1 -DHAVE_ISNAN=1 -DHAVE_ISINF=1 -DHAVE_ACOSH=1 -DHAVE_ASINH=1 -DHAVE_ATANH=1 -DHAVE_ERF=1 -DHAVE_ERFC=1 -DHAVE_ST_BLKSIZE=1 -DHAVE_ST_BLOCKS=1 -DHAVE_ST_RDEV=1 -DHAVE_TM_ZONE=1 -DHAVE_GR_PASSWD=1 -DEXCEPTION_IN_MATH=1 -DRETSIGTYPE=void -DSYS_SIGLIST_DECLARED=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SIGLIST=1 -DHAVE_POSIX_SIGNALS=1 -DHAVE_GETRUSAGE=1 -DHAVE_TIMES=1 -DGNUPLOT_HAS_MULTIPLOT=1 -DGNUPLOT_HAS_FRAMES=1 User-preferences (please do not edit this section): -------------------------------------------------- EDITOR = "jed" EXEC_PATH = ":.:..:/disks/laguna/holt/bin:/disks/laguna/holt/bin/i686:/disks/laguna/holt/src/Filters:/disks/laguna/holt/work/i686:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin" IMAGEPATH = ".:/usr/local/stow/octave-2.1.11/share/octave/2.1.11/imagelib//" INFO_FILE = "/usr/local/stow/octave-2.1.11/info/octave.info" INFO_PROGRAM = "info" LOADPATH = ":/cit/holt/src/octave:/cit/holt/work/Spike:/cit/holt/work/Spike/alpha" PAGER = "less" PS1 = "\\s:\\#> " PS2 = "> " PS4 = "+ " automatic_replot = 0 beep_on_error = 0 completion_append_char = " " default_eval_print_flag = 1 # 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