From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Jan 18 13:02:51 2000
Subject: Re: alpha and lite-kernel
From: "A. Scottedward Hodel" <a dot s dot hodel at eng dot auburn dot edu>
To: "A. Scottedward Hodel" <a dot s dot hodel at eng dot auburn dot edu>,         help-octave <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:02:28 -0600

I think I've answered my own question.  I compiled an earlier version of
Octave with --enable-shared, but not the most recent version.  Apparently
the .oct files were using the outdated libraries.

All is running o.k. now.

For those who are interested, the procedure is (on my machine):

* edit configure so that
    SPECIAL_MATH_LIB=-ldxml
  is set to 
    SPECIAL_MATH_LIB=
* configure options: --prefix=[your directory here] --with-f77 \
    --enable-shared --enable-dl --enable-lite-kernel

> on 1/18/00 9:54 AM, A. Scottedward Hodel at a dot s dot hodel at Eng dot Auburn dot EDU wrote:

> I'm attempting to install octave-2.1.24 on an alpha and am running into
> problems with .oct files.  Details of the installation are below (from
> bug-octave).  Besides the configure options below I've also tried using
> --with-dl, and I'm getting segmentation faults often, even with something so
> simple as
> 
> [q,r] = qr(rand(5,3))
> 
> I need to use dynamic linking to make use of a convex programming package
> that I ported to an earlier bleeding-edge version of Octave.
> 
> If someone else has installed Octave on an alpha with dynamic linking, I'd
> be grateful to learn if you had these problems, and, if so, how to fix them.
> 
> [Note: with jwe's help, I learned to avoid the dxml library distributed on
> the alpha, which caused other crashes in this process.]
> 
> 

-- 
A S Hodel Assoc. Prof. Dept Elect and Computer Eng, Auburn Univ,AL
36849-5201
On leave at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (256) 544-1426
Address until 31 July 2000:Mail Code TD-55, MSFC, Alabama, 35812
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~scotte



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