Re: undeclared variable error

[David Doria]

> You're having trouble building the documentation. A simple workaround
> is to not build it, disable it from the configure script. The problem
> seems to be with your version of TeXinfo and/or TeX, so which ones do
> you have installed? TeXinfo should recognise a less than or equal
> sign.

I'm fine without building the docs. I did this:
~/build/octave$ ~/src/octave-3.4.2/configure --prefix=/home/ddoria/bin
--enable-docs=no

and it seemed to get past that. However, now I get:

/usr/bin/ld: /home/ddoria/bin/lib/liblapack.a(sgbtrf.f.o): relocation
R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a
shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/home/ddoria/bin/lib/liblapack.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I tried this:
~/build/octave$ ~/src/octave-3.4.2/configure --prefix=/home/ddoria/bin
--enable-docs=no CFLAGS=-fPIC CXXFLAGS=-fPIC

but there was no change.

> Regarding the curl problem, I think we've seen it before, so we
> probably do need an actual fix for it in case the curl API has changed
> in recent versions. Can you please open a bug report about that as a
> reminder to at least investigate that problem more thoroughly? Thanks.

I created an account on the bug tracker, so I'll open a report as soon
as I get the confirmation email (which seems to be taking a very long
time).

David