Re: Error with enable-64

[Mark Rogers]

I don't know if this list is even active, as I had no response, but there
is no need to respond now as I found the problem.  For some reason the 
synaptic package manager had installed multiple copies of the libraries in
different directories (e.g., /usr/lib, /usr/lib/libblas, /usr/lib/lapack)
in addition to symbolic links.  When I replaced all the copies (and reset
the links) it started to work.

> I'm trying to install Octave on an x86_64 Linux machine with 64GB memory.
> I spent most of a day following the steps on the website
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Compiling-Octave-with-64_002dbit-Indexing.html)
> as closely as I could, but I'm still getting the following error:
>
> "configure: error: BLAS doesn't seem to support 64-bit integers. This is
> incompatible with --enable-64."
>
> My configure command:
>
> ./configure LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include"
> LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib" --enable-64
>
> The only part of the installation that didn't match the website was for
> the SuiteSparse package, as it no longer has anything called
> "UFconfig/UFconfig.mk", so I edited the file
> SuiteSparse_config/SuiteSparse_config.mk to make the same changes.
>
> At the moment I'm simply uninstalling all the changes I made and
> reinstalling the tiny version of Octave I can get through the Synaptek
> package manager, but I'd really like to get a larger version working.
>
> thanks,
> Mark
>


Mark Rogers
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Ph.D. Research Assistant
Intelligent Systems Laboratory
University of Bristol