From maintainers-request at octave dot org Thu Dec 9 03:25:57 2004 Subject: Update on this LAPACK Fedora glitch. From: Daniel J Sebald To: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" , octave maintainers mailing list Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 03:29:14 -0600 Here is an update to the LAPACK/Octave compile issue: I looked at the Fedora site. There I see under: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/ octave-2.1.57-7.i386.rpm 20-Oct-2004 13:21 4.4M lapack-3.0-27.i386.rpm 30-Nov-2004 10:14 5.2M and under http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/SRPMS/ lapack-3.0-27.src.rpm 30-Nov-2004 10:05 3.7M This tells me, based upon date, they've put together at least a work around and did it by changing only the lapack compilation. Looking in the SPEC file of lapack I see the note: %changelog * Tue Nov 30 2004 Ivana Varekova - fix bug #138683 problem with compilation * Thu Nov 11 2004 Ivana Varekova - fix build problem bug #138447 The first changelog note is the bug Dmitri referred me to. I didn't go through the trouble to figure out exactly what Ivana changed. So, in summary, below is the process I followed. With that, the "make check" went all the way through. I still see some errors in the octave.log, like ans = error: `a' undefined near line 4 column 5 ans = error: `b' undefined near line 9 column 3 but there is no where near all the strange errors I was seeing before. (That getting stuck problem was only one of several.) Dan ============ 1) Download the file lapack-3.0-27.i386.rpm from http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/ to the directory /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 2) Go to System Settings->Add/Remove Applications and under the Engineering settings un-checkmark the lapack package. Exit the Add/Remove package. 3) Double click the lapack-3.0-27.i386.rpm icon in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 to install the package.