From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Dec 22 09:59:24 1998
Subject: Re: Re: Help...
From: lash at tellabs dot com
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Cc: livneo at bina dot wisdom dot weizmann dot ac dot il
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:58:41 -0600 (CST)


Well, it appears that Oren is still having problems.  I don't know
if Oren is subscribed to the list.  I haven't been able to reproduce
this on a Sun or on Linux.  Oren is using SGI, so maybe someone
who uses that platform can help.  Here is the mail I recieved:

> Return-Path: <livneo at bina dot wisdom dot weizmann dot ac dot il>
> X-Authentication-Warning: bina.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il: livneo owned process doing -bs
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:21:44 +0200 (IST)
> To: lash at tellabs dot com
> Subject: Re: Help...
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> Thanks for your help; I am running on SGI machine (IRIX 6.2, 64 bits).
> I've compiled it all from the start yesterday - from source code. It's
> octave 2.0.13, and I am really not sure why it's not working...
> I used gmake, gcc (g++?) 2.7.2 and f77. I sent you another mail with all
> this config, let me resend it again (expect a second email).
> 
> Best regards. Please tell people to email me if they know something!
> Oren

And another mail with more configuration info:

> Dear Bill,
> 
> Thanks for your kind letter. I ran octave 2.0.13 on SGI 6.2 but when I
> typed "version" it said some error, so I am currently re-installing it.
> Did you compile with some special flags? Here's my config:
> 
> Octave is now configured for mips-sgi-irix6.2
> 
>   Source directory:     .
>   Installation prefix:  /usr/local
>   C compiler:           gcc  -g -O2 -Wall
>   C++ compiler:         c++  -fno-rtti -fno-implicit-templates -g -O2 -Wall
>   Fortran compiler:     f77 -O
>   Fortran libraries:     -L/usr/lib/ -lftn -lm
>   Use GNU readline:     true
>   Default pager:        less
>   gnuplot:              gnuplot
> 
>   Do internal array bounds checking:       false
>   Build shared libraries:                  false
>   Minimal kernel option:                   false
>   Dynamic Linking (dlopen/dlsym):          true
>   Dynamic Linking (shl_load/shl_findsym):  false
> 
> configure: warning: I didn't find runtest -- install DejaGNU if you want
> to run `make check'
> 
> Currently making... (with gmake, gcc/g++ 2.7.2)
> 
> First let me obtain the correct results; Then I'll speak of accuracy :)
> You were right about this point. I found some package called PARI for
> formal computation. Look at
> 
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/PTF/Unix_4.2_doc/0462.0.html
> 
> Not sure it can help. Let's first focus on getting an src which works for
> general complex e.v. problems.
> 
> Thanks again, if you have more good advices mail me :)
> Bye bye Oren.
>