From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Jan 12 10:20:36 1999
Subject: Octave crashes on call to rand()
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Nick Youd <nick at logcam dot co dot uk>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, nick@merton.logica.co.uk
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:20:22 -0600 (CST)

On 12-Jan-1999, Nick Youd <nick at logcam dot co dot uk> wrote:

| Bug report for Octave 2.0.13 configured for sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
| 
| Description:
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| I'm sending this bug report again. As far as I can make out, Octave is
| fully functioning, except for calls to rand and randn
| 
| Repeat-By:
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| 
| octave:1> rand(1)
| ld.so: call to undefined procedure _setall_ from 0xef76718c

As I remember, the dynamic linker on the ancient SunOS 4.x systems is
not smart enough to figure out where to find _setall_, which should be
in Octave's libcruft.so.  I think one fix is to change the link
commands for the .oct files so that they include -loctave -lcruft (and
perhaps other libraries as needed).  I'm not sure how to make this
work correctly for all systems.  It is not needed on most, as far as I
know.

jwe