From help-request at octave dot org Fri Jul 15 08:34:44 2005
Subject: Re: dispatch.oct is not a valid shared library
From: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
To: Ted Sariyski <tsariysk at craft-tech dot com>
CC: Octave list <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:31:09 -0500

Ted Sariyski wrote:

> Hi,
> I installed octave-2.1.71  and octave-forge-2005.06.13 on i686/FC4 
> with '--with-f77=gfortran'.  Installation went fluent but when run 
> octave I get:
>
> error: 
> /usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu/octave-forge/dispatch.oct 
> is not a valid shared library
> error: `dispatch' undefined near line 2 column 1
> error: near line 2 of file 
> `/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m/octave-forge/comm//PKG_ADD'
> error: source: error sourcing file 
> `/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m/octave-forge/comm//PKG_ADD'
> error: near line 1 of file `/home/tsariysk/.octaverc'
>
> %~/ more .octaverc
>    LOADPATH = [ 
> '/usr/local/octave-2.1.71/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-p
> c-linux-gnu/octave-forge:/usr/local/octave-2.1.71/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m/oct 
>
> ave-forge//:', LOADPATH ];
>
>    EXEC_PATH = [ 
> '/usr/local/octave-2.1.71/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/exec/i686
> -pc-linux-gnu:', EXEC_PATH ];
>
> What is 'dispatch.oct is not a valid shared library'   and what is 
> wrong with .octaverc?
> Thanks, Ted


So, it looks like you built from source? It's not obvious to me what's 
going wrong here, but the octave and octave-forge in Fedora Extras don't 
cause this problem for me. I would suggest trying those (after cleaning 
out what you already have installed), which can be installed on a FC4 
system with the command "yum install octave-forge".

-Quentin



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