Re: trouble installing octave (version 3.4.2) on ubuntu linux 11.04

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Sep-2011, Dario Cardini wrote:

| Dear John,
| after changing the compiler to gfortran the compilation has run long time,
| until generating the following error:
| 
| ibtool: link: gcc -g -O2 -pthread -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mieee-fp -Wall -W -Wshadow
| -Wformat -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes
| -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -g -O2 -pthread -pthread -g -O2
| -pthread -o .libs/octave main.o -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions  ./.libs/
| liboctinterp.so ../liboctave/.libs/liboctave.so ../libcruft/.libs/libcruft.so
| ../libcruft/.libs/libranlib.a ../libgnu/.libs/libgnu.a -lcholmod -lumfpack
| -lamd -lcamd -lcolamd -lccolamd -lcxsparse -lqrupdate /usr/lib/libfftw3.so 
/usr
| /lib/libfftw3f.so -lfltk_gl -lfltk -L/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu /usr/lib/
| i386-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so /usr/lib/libhdf5.so -lz -lGL -lGLU -lX11
| -lreadline -lncurses -lpcre -llapack -lblas -ldl 
-L/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gcc/
| i686-linux-gnu/4.5.2 -L/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.5.2/../..
| /.. -lgfortran -lm -pthread -Wl,-rpath 
-Wl,/tools/octave/local_3.4.2/lib/octave
| /3.4.2
| ../libcruft/.libs/libcruft.so: undefined reference to `r_imag'
| ../libcruft/.libs/libcruft.so: undefined reference to `c_exp'
| ./.libs/liboctinterp.so: undefined reference to `i_len'
| ../libcruft/.libs/libcruft.so: undefined reference to `c_sqrt'
| ../libcruft/.libs/libcruft.so: undefined reference to `d_sign'
| ./.libs/liboctinterp.so: undefined reference to `s_wsle'
| ../libcruft/.libs/libcruft.so: undefined reference to `c_div'
| ../libcruft/.libs/libcruft.so: undefined reference to `r_cnjg'
| ./.libs/liboctinterp.so: undefined reference to `do_lio'
| ../libcruft/.libs/libcruft.so: undefined reference to `c_log'
| ../libcruft/.libs/libcruft.so: undefined reference to `pow_dd'
| ./.libs/liboctinterp.so: undefined reference to `i_indx'
| ./.libs/liboctinterp.so: undefined reference to `r_sign'
| ./.libs/liboctinterp.so: undefined reference to `pow_ri'
| ./.libs/liboctinterp.so: undefined reference to `e_wsle'
| ../libcruft/.libs/libcruft.so: undefined reference to `c_abs'
| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

These look like Fortran library functions, but not the ones from the
gfortran runtime library.  Did you start fresh, or did you have some
files left over from your previous attempt that were compiled with
/usr/bin/f77?

jwe