From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Dec 23 15:42:05 2003
Subject: Re: Failure (Re: How to use octave-forge?)
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Per Persson <persquare at mac dot com>
Cc: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu,    Vic Norton <vic@norton.name>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:41:39 -0600

On 23-Dec-2003, Per Persson <persquare at mac dot com> wrote:

| On Dec 23, 2003, at 21:51, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
| 
| > I think for octave-forge to work your octave had to be compiled
| > with --enable-shared --enable-dl options.
| 
| No, not on Mac OS X :-(
| 
| The --enable-shared --enable-dl options won't work on OS X. The current 
| work-around is to edit config.h _after_ configuring (w/o 
| --enable-shared --enable-dl options) so that the line: /* #undef 
| HAVE_DYLD_API */ instead reads: #define HAVE_DYLD_API 1
| 
| This will (should) let you build and run .oct files.

I'd like to fix this so configure works properly.  Can someone with an
OS X system please try to debug why this fails?

Thanks,

jwe



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