Re: IRIX octave 2.0.14 can't find runtime libs

[Erick Branderhorst]

>>>>> "TW" == Thomas Walter <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> "John" == John W Eaton <address@hidden> writes:
    TW> [snip]

    John> Eventually, Octave's configure script and Makefiles should be fixed to
    John> use libtool, which should help to make these things work better.
    John> Unfortunately, I have little time to spend working on that project.
    John> Any volunteers?

    TW> To do this I think it is best to use 'automake' too.  Writing the
    TW> dependencies into the files 'Makefile.am' is much easier because they
    TW> are much shorter then `Makefile.in' files..  After that
    TW> calling 'automake' will build all the 'Makefile.in'.  And 'automake'
    TW> knows how to use 'libtool'.  There will be no need write rules to call
    TW> 'libtool' by hand.

    TW> What are the opinions about that?  I have used automake and libtool
    TW> for a long time and I would help to do the step.

I started this a while ago, but unfortunately a diskcrash wiped out all
(and of course no backup available). I didn't restart and don't have time
right now to do this.

Erick