static octave <-- static packages? (On AIX)

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Nov-2007, G.. wrote:

| On AIX, octave-2.9.x will build only in the static version (at least for me),
| so adding additional packages from the repositories is impossible (no oct
| files). Is there an easy method to incorporate these packages into the
| octave build?

You need some way to get the

  #include <octave/xyz.h>

lines handled correctly.  Maybe a symbolic link would do it.  But I
think it would be much better to make dynamic linking work on your
system.

| PS: The shared version builds (with gcc-4.1.1), but then octave persistently
| segfaults.

Please report this bug to the address@hidden list with all the details
about the build.

jwe