Re: Failure to compile Octave 3.0.2 on AIX 5.3

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Oct-2008, Alisdair Tullo wrote:

| On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, John W. Eaton wrote:
| > Please try the following additional patch.
| 
| Thanks again for your help. Octave now builds here, though it requires an 
| additional flag (-Wl,-bbigtoc) in order to link as the TOC for the final 
| link is huge.
| 
| Unfortunately I can't get Octave to produce any output. Running the octave 
| binary (either as-is for an interactive session, or with a 'hello world' 
| program) doesn't produce any output at all, or return to the prompt. It 
| seems to be using the CPU but I have no idea what it's doing.
| 
| I'll attempt to run it through a debugger and see what it's up to, and 
| report back.

As I said earlier, to ensure that Octave works correctly on unusual
systems, we need for the people who use the unusual systems to
participate in Octave's development.  Will you please join the
maintainers list and and discuss these problems there in the future?

Thanks,

jwe