From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Fri Feb 25 09:26:49 1994
Subject: RE: finite() and logb() declarations
From: stevej at swanson dot com (Steve Jones)
To: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 10:31:53 EST

> Oh now I see.  log1p.c should NOT BE COMPILED!  If you have hpux9.01
> then you already have all these functions.  If octave is trying to
> autodetect them it may fail.  This is a common problem on hpux, these
> new math functions are not in the usual math library.
> 
> They are in /lib/pa1.1/libm.
> 
> I strongly recommend that you put
> 
> LPATH="/usr/local/lib:/lib/pa1.1:/usr/lib/pa1.1:/lib:/usr/lib"
> 
> in your environment.  Always!
> 
> The problem is that hp's cc (and also gcc) know about this, but
> /bin/ld doesn't!

That, indeed, was the problem.  To avoid trouble it was necessary to
exclude:

	copysign.o
	log1p.o
	finite.o
	logb.o
	scalb.o

from LIBOBJS in the src directory.

Thanks very much...

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