From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Feb  5 12:15:42 1998
Subject: error in octave-2.1.4
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Steven N Harp <snh2 at psu dot edu>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 12:15:50 -0600

On  5-Feb-1998, Steven N Harp <snh2 at psu dot edu> wrote:

| I received
| the following
| make prefix=/home/snh/octave
| .......
| make[3]: Entering directory `/home/snh/octave/octave-2.1.4/libcruft/lapack'
| f77 -c -O xdlange.f
| xdlange.f:
|         xdlange:
|         xdlange:
| "xdlange.f", line 8: Error: external name "xdlange" already in use
| make[3]: *** [xdlange.o] Error 1
| make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/snh/octave/octave-2.1.4/libcruft/lapack'
| make[2]: *** [lapack] Error 2
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/snh/octave/octave-2.1.4/libcruft'
| make[1]: *** [libcruft] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/snh/octave/octave-2.1.4'
| make: *** [all] Error 2

What's in your libcruft/lapack/xdlange.f file?  There should just be
8 lines total.  I'd guess you somehow have more than one copy of the
subroutine in there.  Did you grab the full 2.1.4 tar file or what?

jwe