Re: building octave-2.1.xx on SGI irix6.5

[Clinton Chee]

G'day David,

If you or anyone wish  to compile octave on SGI IRIX6.5 using the native 
MIPSPro compilers,
then here's what I found to work:

1. Put the contents below as an executable called "configureOctave" for 
example:
export myINC=" -I/home/chee/usr/include/CC "
export sysINC="  -I/usr/local/include "
export OPT=" -64 -w -O3 "
export CC="cc"
export CXX=CC
export F77=f77
export LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/usr/lib $OPT"
export CXXFLAGS="$myINC $sysINC -ptused -LANG:std 
-DCXX_ISO_COMPLIANT_LIBRARY $OPT"
export CFLAGS="$myINC $sysINC $OPT"
export FFLAGS="$OPT"
configure --prefix=/usr/local/octave  --with-blas=-lscs_mp 
--with-lapack=-lscs_mp

2.  Run the above file with ". configureOctave"
Note the "." is important.

3. The trick to using MIPSPro compilers with Octave, is you need to get 
the following C/C++? headers and libraries if it is not in standard 
location.  In my case, I got the files somewhere else and put them in:
/home/chee/usr/include/CC$>ls
cassert  cerrno   climits  cmath    csignal  cstddef  cstdlib  ctime    
cwctype
cctype   cfloat   clocale  csetjmp  cstdarg  cstdio   cstring  cwchar

/home/chee/usr/
libncurses.a   libreadline.a


4. To compile, use "gmake" (GNU's make) rather than IRIX's "make.

Cheers,
Clinton


Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) wrote:

> Just a note for the record (and google) on building recent octave releases on 
> SGI irix6.5 systems
>
> I haven't been able to build a working octave on SGI irix6.5 for over a year 
> now. This hadn't been a real problem until I retired some hardware recently.
> The build goes OK but the binary core dumps on startup.  Thanks to Paul Kienzle's 
> notes in http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?PaulKienzleIrixConf I have a fix.
>
> The solution:  Don't use the SGI supplied libscs.so if you use g++
>
>
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High Performance Computing Support Unit
University of New South Wales
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