AIX 5.3 and gcc-3.3.2 octave-2.1.72 done

[Daniel Heiserer]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 19-Jan-2006, Daniel Heiserer wrote:
>
> | ld: 0711-781 ERROR: TOC overflow. TOC size: 96792       Maximum size: 65536
>
> This looks like an error from the IBM ld.  What does the man page for
> ld say about it?
>
> jwe

Ok. I made it. Here were the two problems:

1) HAVE_ROUND must be edited out of the config.h. Detection is wrong 
either to ./configure or AIX
2) bigtoc flags must be set:
setenv LDFLAGS "-L/usr/local/lib -Xlinker -bbigtoc"

That's it.

==>
/scratch > $OCTAVE
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-- thanks daniel



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