From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Mar 24 14:07:30 2000
Subject: Comments on octave-2.0.16
From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe at math dot utah dot edu>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Cc: beebe at math dot utah dot edu
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:07:22 -0600 (CST)


I attempted builds of octave-2.0.16 on these systems, with universal failure:

	Apple Macintosh PPC G3	Rhapsody 5.5
	DEC Alpha		OSF/1 4.0F
	HP 9000/735		HP-UX 10.01
	IBM PowerPC		AIX 4.2
	Intel Pentium III	GNU/Linux 2.2.12-20smp (Redhat 6.1)
	NeXT Turbostation	Mach 3.3
	SGI Indigo/2		IRIX 5.3
	SGI Origin 200		IRIX 6.5
	Sun SPARC		GNU/Linux 2.2.12-42smp (Redhat 6.1)
	Sun SPARC		Solaris 2.6
	Sun SPARC		Solaris 2.7

Compiler levels are gcc-2.95.2 on all but the NeXT and Apple systems.

On most, the compilations completed, only to die with

./klibtool[615]: ../: cannot execute
make[2]: *** [../kpathsea/libkpathsea.la] Error 126
make[1]: *** [kpathsea] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/local/build/octave-2.0.16/kpathsea'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/local/build/octave-2.0.16'

On the NeXT systems, configure would not complete; we will be retiring
them in the next few weeks, so I'm not concerned about them.

On the DEC Alpha, the build completed, but the tests failed with

Native configuration is alpha-dec-osf4.0

		=== octave tests ===

ERROR: Couldn't find tool init file.
make[2]: *** [check] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/export/home/0023/build-alpha-osf1/octave-2.0.16/test'

On the Apple, configure reports

checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one

Rhapsody is a threadless, X11-less UNIX running on Macintosh PowerPC
hardware; about 1/3 of the GNUware I try to build on it will not
build.  uname reports

% uname -a
Rhapsody rhapsody.math.utah.edu 5.5 Kernel Release 5.5: Fri Jul  2 13:10:26 PDT 1999; root(rcbuilder):Objects/kernel-154.14.obj~10/RELEASE_PPC Copyright (c) 1988-1995,1997-1999 Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved.  Power Macintosh

% uname -m
Power Macintosh

% uname -n
rhapsody.math.utah.edu

% uname -r
5.5

% uname -s
Rhapsody

% uname -v
Kernel Release 5.5: Fri Jul  2 13:10:26 PDT 1999; root(rcbuilder):Objects/kernel-154.14.obj~10/RELEASE_PPC Copyright (c) 1988-1995,1997-1999 Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

On the Sun Solaris systems, the build completed, but the checks failed
with

cd test; make check
make[2]: Entering directory `/local/build/octave-2.0.16/test'
wrong # args: should be "catch command ?varName?"
    while compiling
"catch set logname [exec whoami] tmp"
    ("if" else script line 3)
    while compiling
"if [info exists env(LOGNAME)] then {
	    set logname $env(LOGNAME)
	} else {
	    # try getting it with whoami
	    catch set logname [exec whoami] t..."
    ("if" else script line 2)
    while compiling
"if [info exists env(USER)] then {
	set logname $env(USER)
    } else {
	if [info exists env(LOGNAME)] then {
	    set logname $env(LOGNAME)
	} else {
..."
    invoked from within
"if [string match "" $logname] then {
    if [info exists env(USER)] then {
	set logname $env(USER)
    } else {
	if [info exists env(LOGNAME)] then {
..."
    (file "/usr/local/bin/../lib/dejagnu/runtest.exp" line 211)
make[2]: *** [check] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/local/build/octave-2.0.16/test'

We are running expect version 5.31.2.  That is the latest version
included in the tcl 8.2 and 8.3 distributions, from

	ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/pub/tcl/expect/expect5.31.tar.gz

On the SGI IRIX 5.3 system, compilation failed like this:

make[3]: Entering directory `/export/home/0021/build-indigo-irix5/octave-2.0.16/libcruft/amos'
mkdir pic
cat dgamln.f | f2c  > dgamln.c
   dgamln:
cc -ansi -mips2 -O2 -c  -I. -I../.. -I../../liboctave -I../../src -I../../libcruft/misc  -I../../glob -I../../glob -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -g dgamln.c
cfe: Error: dgamln.c: 6: Cannot open file f2c.h for #include
make[3]: *** [dgamln.o] Error 1

We DO have that header file, but it is in /usr/local/include, and the
SGI compiler doesn't search that directory by default.  Since f2c.h
might change between releases, but is otherwise architecture
independent, perhaps the best thing for octave is to include its own
private copy that matches the C file(s) produced by f2c.

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