From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan  7 22:45:24 1999
Subject: Compiling Octave 2.0.13 on Solaris 7 x86
From: "Kai O'Yang" <Kai dot Oyang at infotech dot monash dot edu dot au>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:45:02 +1100

Hi,

Has anyone successfully compiled Octave for Solaris 7?

I'm using gcc2.8.1, g77-0.5.23, and libstdc++ 2.8.1.1. The problem is at
the linking of octave, it complained "relocation error" at Quad.o.
Does anyone know what could be the problem?

Thanks,
Kai

gmake[2]: Entering directory `/home/oyang/src/octave/octave-2.0.13/src'
c++  -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-mieee-fp -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fno-implicit-templates -g -O2 -Wall
-L..   -fPIC -g -o octave \
octave.o builtins.o  balance.o  besselj.o  betainc.o  chol.o  colloc.o 
dassl.o  det.o  eig.o  expm.o  fft.o  fft2.o  filter.o  find.o  fsolve.o 
gammainc.o  getgrent.o  getpwent.o  getrusage.o  givens.o  hess.o  ifft.o 
ifft2.o  inv.o  log.o  lpsolve.o  lsode.o  lu.o  minmax.o  pinv.o  qr.o 
quad.o  qzval.o  rand.o  schur.o  sort.o  svd.o  syl.o  time.o \
-L../liboctave -L../libcruft -L../src  \
../src/liboctinterp.a ../liboctave/liboctave.a  ../libcruft/libcruft.a 
../readline/libreadline.a ../kpathsea/libkpathsea.a   \
-lg2c -lm  -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/usr/lib
-L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-solaris2.7/2.8.1
-L/usr/local/i386-pc-solaris2.7/lib -L/usr/ccs/bin -L/usr/ccs/lib
-L/usr/local/lib -lm  -lcurses -lm -lsunmath -ldl -lsocket 
ld: warning: relocation error: R_386_32: file
../liboctave/liboctave.a(Quad.o): symbol .L_E5737:
        external symbolic relocation against non-allocatable section .debug;
        cannot be processed at runtime: relocation ignored
ld: warning: relocation error: R_386_32: file
../liboctave/liboctave.a(Quad.o): symbol .L_E5761:
        external symbolic relocation against non-allocatable section .debug;
        cannot be processed at runtime: relocation ignored
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
.L_E5737                            ../liboctave/liboctave.a(Quad.o)
.L_E5761                            ../liboctave/liboctave.a(Quad.o)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to octave
gmake[2]: *** [octave] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/oyang/src/octave/octave-2.0.13/src'
gmake[1]: *** [src] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/oyang/src/octave/octave-2.0.13'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2