MacOS X port, some progress, need help!

[Per Persson]

Hi,
my previous attempts to compile octave for MacOS X have failed due to a 
number of undefined symbols.
(See e.g. http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2001/630 and 
http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2001/623 )

I finally got some time to spend on this and I ripped out all of the 
'static T foo;' parts from functions in Array.cc et al and made it a 
private member of the class.  All instantiation code then went into a 
source file ArrayInst.cc that was compiled separately and linked into 
octave as the very last object (by adding -lArrayInst.o after the libs 
in the makefile). The point here is to make sure that every instance is 
initialized _exactly once_ in the code.

This actually works! Well, for some part at least... some (most) of the 
undefinded symbols went away.
A log can be found on:
http://homepage.mac.com/persquare/octave_log.html
and the file ArrayInst.cc on:
http://homepage.mac.com/persquare/ArrayInst.cc

I'm pretty sure that this is the way to go but I can't get any further - 
all this is making my brain hurt! So maybe someone who is fluent in the 
use of C++ and templates can help out?

(I used octave 2.1.34 sources, gcc 2.95.2 and f2c)

/Per



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