From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sun Jan 21 15:57:50 2001 Subject: Re: Solaris Compile: Getting Closers From: Andrew Bainbridge-Smith To: "Doug Sturim" cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, won072@msa.cmst.csiro.au Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:57:12 +1100 Doug, Gerard and I managed to get octave 2.1.33 compiled on solaris here last week. We have noticed 2 particular problems. 1) On solaris 5 we had problems with the configure finding symbols gethostname() and rgetusage() but which didn't seem to be available at link time. This was fixed by hand editing config.h I don't know why this error occurs but I strongly think we have some system configuration problem. It does not occur for solaris 7 2) On solaris 5 and 7 Gerard reported his problem at final link time of the octave executable. For the same op-systems (in fact the same machines) I did not have any problems at all (other than the one reported above). Hence the problem must have been one of system setup. Gerard changed his default startup scripts (which meant removing lot of programs --- particularly SUN compilers --- from his PATH settings) to match mine and compiled with no problems. I cannot tell you exactly what system components appear to interact to cause this problem, all I can say is that I think you should be looking at pairing back your startup scripts to see if that helps. We don't run solaris 6 here, but I think our experience reported above should help. Best wishes and good luck, Andrew -- Dr Andrew Bainbridge-Smith Senior Research Engineer Vision Technology Development Group CSIRO Manufacturing Science and Technology Australia Phone +61 3 9662 7733 Fax +61 3 9662 7851 Email Andrew dot Bainbridge-Smith at cmst dot csiro dot au Mail Locked Bag No. 9, Preston Vic. 3072, Australia Location Cnr Albert & Raglan Streets, Preston Vic 3072, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------