From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Mon Jan 16 07:48:12 1995
Subject: Re: octave 1.1 on SunOS 4.1.3
From: vdp at us0 dot mayo dot EDU (Vinayak Dutt)
To: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 07:47:44 CST

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#: I had written earlier about the problems of compiling octave 1.1
#:on SunOS 4.1.3 with gcc-2.6.0 and Sun F77 2.0.1.
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#In other words, you NEED TO UPDATE your gcc to 2.6.3!!!
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  Yes. I noticed that yesterday when I looked into the details. But
I had noticed earlier somewhere else in the docs that one needs 2.6.0
and up, so I thought I will give it a try with 2.6.0. Anyway, I will
try to upgrade gcc as soon as possible. But as I mentioned in my blurb,
the problem does not seem much to do with gcc, but link editing. I was
getting missing symbol (__lib_version) which I think is used by
Sun compiler. So it is much to do with what all objects have to be linked
to resolve all the symbols rather that which compiler I chose.

  By the way, yesterday night I was able to install octave with
gcc-2.6.0 and Sun F77-2.0.1 with my fix of including Sun compiler
object version-Xs.o from the library directory of Sun compiler.
Only problem was that I could not used dld library and lite-kernel option.
So now I have a 3mb+ binary :-( But octave seems to be working fine.


--vinayak-
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 * vinayak dutt
 * graduate student, ultrasound research
 * mayo graduate school, rochester mn
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 *         dutt dot vinayak at mayo dot edu
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