From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Apr 19 07:10:43 2000
Subject: mkoctfile: Problems sometimes during linking of text file
From: Stephen Eglen <stephen at cogsci dot ed dot ac dot uk>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:10:40 +0100

Hi,

Sometimes when using mkoctfile, I get the followng error during the
final link stage (I've put the \ continuation lines in myself):

c++ -c -I/home/data6/stephen/include -I/home/data6/stephen/include \
-I/home/data6/stephen/include/octave-2.0.16 -mieee-with-inexact \
-fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fno-implicit-templates -g -O2 -Wall \
 sjevor_wrap.cc -o sjevor_wrap.o
c++ -shared -Xlinker -expect_unresolved -Xlinker '*' \
-o sjevor_wrap.oct sjevor.o sjevor_wrap.o
/usr/ucb/ld:
Can't create output file (Text file busy)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

It looks to me that it may be a ld problem rather than anything to do
with Octave.  This happens about one time in four of running the
compilation; normally when I get it, if I recompile then it all works
okay.  I was just wondering if anyone else got this, and if I can do
anything about it.

By the way, I don't call mkoctfile directly, but use the matwrap perl
script to do the hard work.  This is on DEC OSF/1.

Cheers, Stephen



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