From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Wed Feb  1 08:45:52 1995
Subject: Re: rand problem 
From: John Eaton <jwe at che dot utexas dot edu>
To: akgul at bilkent dot edu dot tr (Mustafa Akgul)
cc: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 95 08:45:16 CST

akgul at bilkent dot edu dot tr (Mustafa Akgul) wrote:

: rand function has problems under sunos4.1.3, gcc-2.6.3,
: libg++-2.6.2
: 
: firat  AKGUL [48] lib/octave  >  octave
: Octave, version 1.1.0.  Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
: John W. Eaton.
: This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
: For details, type `warranty'.
: 
: octave:1> rand
: error: unable to load builtin function rand
: error: evaluating expression near line 1, column 5
: octave:2> 
: 
: %%%%
: It works under 1.0
: 
: Is it a bug ?

Did you configure Octave with --enable-dld and --enable-lite-kernel?

The only way these messages should appear is if you are trying to use
these features.  They should work on a SunOS system if you have
installed Octave correctly.

I suspect that Octave is unable to find the correct libraries to link
to at run time.

jwe