Problems installing on Solaris 5.8

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Oct-2001, Stephen W. Juranich <address@hidden> wrote:

| We've got a "non-standard" installation here, and I'm fairly certain that 
I've 
| run the configure script correctly, but I keep getting the following linker 
| errors when I try to build on our machine:
| 
| make[2]: Entering directory `/atm/kite/d2/packages/octave-2.0.16/src'
| making builtins.cc from data.df defaults.df dirfns.df error.df file-io.df 
help.df input.df load-save.df oct-hist.df pager.df pr-output.df pt-fcn.df 
pt-plot.df strfns.df syscalls.df sysdep.df toplev.df utils.df variables.df 
ov-typeinfo.df balance.df besselj.df betainc.df chol.df colloc.df dassl.df 
det.df eig.df expm.df fft.df fft2.df filter.df find.df fsolve.df gammainc.df 
getgrent.df getpwent.df getrusage.df givens.df hess.df ifft.df ifft2.df inv.df 
log.df lpsolve.df lsode.df lu.df minmax.df pinv.df qr.df quad.df qzval.df 
rand.df schur.df sort.df svd.df syl.df time.df
| builtins.cc is unchanged
| c++  -I. -I.. -I../liboctave -I../src -I../libcruft/misc  -I../glob -I../glob 
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fno-implicit-templates -g -O2 -Wall 
-rdynamic \
| -L..   -fPIC -g -o octave \
| octave.o builtins.o  balance.o  besselj.o  betainc.o  chol.o  colloc.o  
dassl.o  det.o  eig.o  expm.o  fft.o  fft2.o  filter.o  find.o  fsolve.o  
gammainc.o  getgrent.o  getpwent.o  getrusage.o  givens.o  hess.o  ifft.o  
ifft2.o  inv.o  log.o  lpsolve.o  lsode.o  lu.o  minmax.o  pinv.o  qr.o  quad.o 
 qzval.o  rand.o  schur.o  sort.o  svd.o  syl.o  time.o \
| -L../liboctave -L../libcruft -L../src -Xlinker -R -Xlinker 
/g/ssli/generic/SunOS/lib/octave-2.0.16 \
| ../src/liboctinterp.a ../liboctave/liboctave.a  ../libcruft/libcruft.a  
../readline/libreadline.a ../kpathsea/libkpathsea.a ../glob/libglob.a  \
| -lg2c -lm  -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/usr/lib 
-L/g/rcs/sw/pkgs/gcc-2.95.2/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/2.95.2 
-L/usr/ccs/bin -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/g/rcs/sw/pkgs/gcc-2.95.2/lib -lm  -lcurses 
-ldl -lsocket -lm 
| c++: unrecognized option `-rdynamic'
| Undefined                       first referenced
|  symbol                             in file
| dostop_                             ../libcruft/libcruft.a(xstopx.o)
| machar_                             ../libcruft/libcruft.a(d1mach.o)
| ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to octave
| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
| make[2]: *** [octave] Error 1
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/atm/kite/d2/packages/octave-2.0.16/src'
| make[1]: *** [src] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/atm/kite/d2/packages/octave-2.0.16'
| make: *** [all] Error 2
| 
| We use gcc 2.95.2 (which should be plenty recent enough).  I don't recognize 
| the symbols that it's looking for (dostop_ and machar_), so I'm assuming they 
| come in the source distribution somewhere.
| 
| Could somebody please tell me how to make this compile?  Here's the output of 
| uname -a:
| 
| condor (octave-2.0.16)$ uname -a 
| SunOS condor 5.8 Generic_108528-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

dostop is defined in libcruft/misc/dostop.c and machar is defined in
libcruft/misc/machar.c.  Were those files compiled when you built
Octave?  What symbols are present in libcruft/misc/machar.o and
libcruft/misc/machar.o?  Was F77_APPEND_UNDERSCORE defined correctly?

jwe




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