Dynamic Linking woes

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Aug-1997, Andy Adler <address@hidden> wrote:

| I'm trying to get octave set up to do dynamic linking.

| I've also tried compiling octave with
| 
| ./configure --enable-shared --enable-dl
| make
| 
| but I get a compiler error:
| 
| gcc -c  -fPIC -I. -I.. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O readline.c -o pic/readline.o
| Assembler messages:
| FATAL: Can't create pic/readline.o: No such file or directory
| make[2]: *** [pic/readline.o] Error 1
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/octave-2.0.9/readline'
| 
| Can anyone figure out what I'm doing wrong?
| Thanks for any help.

You will probably want to have shared libraries installed if you are
using the dynamic linking features, so --enable-shared is the right
way to go.

I think the install problem can probably be avoided by deleting the
following files and running make again.

  kpathsea/stamp-picdir
  kpathsea/stamp-shared
  libcruft/stamp-shared
  liboctave/stamp-picdir
  liboctave/stamp-prereq
  liboctave/stamp-shared
  readline/stamp-history
  readline/stamp-picdir
  readline/stamp-readline
  src/stamp-interp
  src/stamp-oct-links
  src/stamp-picdir
  src/stamp-prereq
  src/stamp-tinst

jwe