From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Mar 18 13:50:19 1998
Subject: Re: Linking od Octave 2.0.11 crashes on Solaris2.6 X86 with gcc-2.8.1 
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Wolfram Wagner <ww at mpi-sb dot mpg dot de>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 13:49:54 -0600

On 18-Mar-1998, Wolfram Wagner <ww at mpi-sb dot mpg dot de> wrote:

| Thank you very much for the quick and precise answer. Libf2c.a is installed, 
| the errors around this problem vanished after a slight modification of 
| src/Makefile.

If libf2c.a is installed, then why didn't configure find it?

| The relocation errors in Quad.o vanished after re-compilation of the
| object file wihtout optimisation. I consider posting this to the Gcc
| maintainers (not to solve my problem, but to assist improving the
| software, which also was the reason for my original mail, BTW).

As I see it, the problem is that configure failed to find libf2c, but
your report didn't help me to understand why that happened, so I'm not
sure how I can improve things.  I might be able to improve things for
future releases, but only if you can help me to understand what is
causing the problem on your system (it works correctly for me).

jwe