From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Apr 17 11:28:49 2003 Subject: Re: Poor numerical accuracy with ppc version of octave From: Jean-Francois Cardoso To: persquare at mac dot com Cc: cardoso at tsi dot enst dot fr, bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu, jsw@cdc.noaa.gov Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:09:46 -0500 On Apr 17, Per Persson wrote: > > I ran the test on a different machine with octave 2.1.40 (*not* > installed by fink) and the numbers are OK: [...] > So, it appears that this is a fink-specific problem. Yes. > IIRC, there was a bug in fink's octave buildinfo some time ago that > made octave link with some default code instead of the vecLib > framework as intended. Maybe you need to update fink? As far as I understand, my fink install is as up to date as can be. > This looks familiar too... try issuing > setenv FLIBS -lg2c > before attempting to build octave from source Unfortunately, that does not do the trick: checking how to get verbose linking output from g77... -v checking for Fortran 77 libraries... -lg2c checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... unknown configure: error: linking to Fortran libraries from C fails See `config.log' for more details. Thanks a lot for your feedback anyway: even if it did not solve my specific compile problem, it convinced Jeff to push an upgraded version ;-) Cheers, JF ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------