Binary distribution problem ...

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Aug-1998, H. Brown Cribbs III <address@hidden> wrote:

|   I've tried [repeatedly] to install Octave 2.0.13 on my Red Hat Linux
| v4.2 (kernal 2.0.34) machine running the ECGS 1.0.3 compiler suite.  
| I've been able to compile and run octave on another machine with the same
| library revisions, but every binary distribution I've made core dumps on
| any command, even 'help.'  The binary release from the Octave homepage
| core dumps on startup (I never even get the octave prompt).
| 
| I'm pretty sure my libraries are upto date, so I'm at a loss. I've even
| added many directories to /etc/ld.so.conf and reran "ldconfig -v" to see
| if that would help.  Any ideas?
| 
| By upto date on the library front here's the specifics:
|       ld.so.1.7.14
|       libc.so.5.44
|       libm.so.5.0.9
|       libg++.so.27.1.4
|       libstdc++.27.1.4
| I wish I had room to compile on my target system, but that's
| not possible since its VERY limited on disk space.

It sounds like the libraries and/or header files must be incompatible
on your system(s).

If you don't need Octave's dynamic linking capability, you might try
building a statically linked binary distribution.  You can either
modify binary-dist target in the top-level Makefile or do something
like this:

  configure --disable-shared --disable-dl --disable-lite-kernel
  make -f octMakefile CFLAGS=-O CXXFLAGS=-O LDFLAGS=-static all
  make -f octMakefile binary-dist

jwe