Re: SuSe 8.0 compile problems

[Roberto Hernandez]

Doug Sturim wrote:
> Does anyone have a clue to why Suse 8.0 (clean install on a i386) has 
> this compile problem with octave 2.1.35 and 2.1.36. Thanks

...

> zbdsqr.o(.text+0x893): undefined reference to `zdrot_'
> zbdsqr.o(.text+0x8e3): undefined reference to `zdrot_'
> zbdsqr.o(.text+0x92c): undefined reference to `zdrot_'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [octave] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/octave-2.1.36/src'
> make[1]: *** [src] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/octave-2.1.36'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

Sounds an awful lot like the problem I had about a year ago trying to 
compile Octave 2.1.34 on SuSE 7.0. I remember 'zdrot_' coming up.

IIRC this was related to the BLAS package that is installed by SuSE. 
Apparently the symbol 'zdrot_' isn't included in that package. You can 
read about that in the mailing-list archives in bug-octave, under the 
subject "Cannot build Octave", sometime in August 2001.

This was fixed by running ./configure --without-fastblas. Unfortunately 
a new problem came up after fixing the first one. I finally made 
everything work by switching to RedHat...

Hope that helps,

Roberto Hernandez



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