Re: Problem compiling/installing octave

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

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> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install octave on a sun Solaris 2.6 system.
>
> I have downloaded xoctave-2.1.57.tar, and installed and compiled gcc-3.3 
> and make-3.80.

You will need to get a gnu sed and perl > 5.8 eventually to compile everything,
but that is not the problem now.

> I did the configure in the octave directory and I am now trying to compile 
> it. I get the following error:
>
> gendoc.cc is unchanged
> ./gendoc > DOCSTRINGS-t
> ld.so.1: ./gendoc: fatal: libstdc++.so.2.10.0: open failed: No such file
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That looks awfully old -- I think it was distributed with gcc 2.95 or about.
It appears that you trying to link with old and incompatible libstdc++ library.

Do you have other gcc installed?

...

> What could be the problem ?

It looks to me that your g++ configuration is not good.

Sincerely,

Dmitri.



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