From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Jan 14 09:57:00 1997
Subject: Ultrix4.4 and 'strdup'?
From: khj at beagle dot cs dot appstate dot edu (Kenneth Jacker)
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot WISC dot edu
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 97 10:58:52 EST

I have begun installing the 2.0.1 version of 'octave' (with 'f2c') on a
DECstation/Ultrix-4.4 system.  After pre-compiling 'f2c' and running
'configure', I invoked 'gmake' requesting no debug support.

After a few compiles, I received the following messages:

	gcc  -o makedoc makedoc.o clib.o xmalloc.o -ltermcap
	collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
	/usr/lib/cmplrs/cc/ld:
	Undefined:
	strdup

Apparently 'configure' misses the fact that 'strdup' is unavailable.

I made an effort to "work around the problem", but made no progress
after about 30 minutes.  I also checked the mailing list archives, but
found no references to the problem.

Any ideas to help me continue will be most welcome!

Thanks,

-Prof Kenneth H Jacker      Internet:   khj at cs dot appstate dot edu
-Computer Science Dept        Bitnet:   jackerkh at appstate
-Appalachian State Univ
-Boone, NC  28608  USA           URL:   http://www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj