Octave Compilation Error

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Oct-2007, Himanshu B. Dave wrote:

| towards the end of compilation:
| ------------------------------
| 
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| make[3]: `libcruft.so.2.9.15' is up to date.
| make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/hbd2/octave- 2.9.15/libcruft'
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hbd2/octave-2.9.15/libcruft'
| make -C liboctave all
| make[2]: Entering directory `/home/hbd2/octave-2.9.15/liboctave'
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hbd2/octave- 2.9.15/liboctave'
| make -C src all
| make[2]: Entering directory `/home/hbd2/octave-2.9.15/src'
| making defaults.h from defaults.h.in
| defaults.h is unchanged
| making oct-conf.h from oct-conf.h.in
| oct-conf.h is unchanged
| g++  -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
| -mieee-fp -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -g -O2 -rdynamic \
|         -L..  -fPIC  -o octave \
|         main.o  \
|         -L../liboctave -L../libcruft -L../src -Wl,-rpath
| -Wl,/usr/local/lib/octave-2.9.15 \
|         -loctinterp -loctave  -lcruft    \
|              \
|             \
|          -lreadline  -lncurses -ldl -lm
| -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.1.2
| -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.1.2/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/lib
| -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.1.2/../../.. -lgfortranbegin
| -lgfortran -lm
| ../libcruft/libcruft.so: undefined reference to `dormrz_'
| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
| make[2]: *** [octave] Error 1
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hbd2/octave-2.9.15/src'
| make[1]: *** [src] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hbd2/octave-2.9.15'
| make: *** [all] Error 2
| address@hidden:~/octave-2.9.15:$
| 
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| 
| CPU: Intel Celeron 2.84 GHz
| Slackware 12.0 Linux kernel 2.6.22
| 
| Can't find the reason for the error.

See the part of this thread that discusses the missing file problem:

  https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2007-October/003619.html

jwe