shared weirdness

[John W. Eaton]

On 30-Sep-2003, Ben Sapp <address@hidden> wrote:

| I had run octave-2.1.40 on cygwin for some time.  Recently, I upgraded to 
| 2.1.50.   I built both 2.1.40 and  2.1.50 to use shared libraries so I 
| could use mkoctfile.   Now, when I run octave-2.1.50 I get the following:
| 
| $ octave-2.1.50
| GNU Octave, version 2.1.40 (i686-pc-cygwin).
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| octave-2.1.50:1> version
| ans = 2.1.40
| octave-2.1.50:2>
| 
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 
| LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set and the usual Linux tools like ldd are not 
| available.  Any ideas what I did wrong?  Any ideas on the solution?

It looks like you are getting the old libraries.  Did you install the
new version?  What configure opations did you use?  The default is now
to enable rpath, so by default, Octave will ignore LD_LIBRARY_PATH and
look for shared libraries in $(octlibdir), default value is
/usr/local/lib/octave-VERSION.

jwe



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