Re: octave-2.1.50 with octave-forge-2.1.36

[Julius Smith]

Thanks to some tips from from Paul Kienzle, I found that this problem is 
caused by building Octave with shared-libraries disabled (the 
default).  Apparently, on a Red Hat 9 Linux system, one MUST add the 
configure option

        configure --enable-shared

The INSTALL.OCTAVE file even documents this potential problem:

`--enable-shared'
          Create shared libraries. ... It will make your
          `.oct' files much smaller and on some systems it may be
          necessary to build shared libraries in order to use
          dynamically linked functions.

I would suggest that Octave's configure script should enable shared 
libraries by default, at least on all systems (such as Red Hat 9) where it 
is known to be required for Octave Forge compatibility.

Julius

At 12:08 PM 8/23/2003 -0700, Julius Smith wrote:
> Since the Octave Forge package is said to have been tested with 
> octave-2.1.49, I tried rolling back to that, but the failure is the same. 
> -- jos
>
> At 11:30 AM 8/23/2003 -0700, Julius Smith wrote:
> > I just obtained identical results (a month later) using the same packages 
> > on my RedHat 9 system. No workaround as yet. -- jos
> >
> > At 04:33 PM 7/28/2003 -0400, T.Sariyski wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just compiled octave-2.1.50 with octave-forge-2.1.36 
> > > <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/octave/octave-forge-2003.06.02.tar.gz?download>on 
> > > an i386/RedHat9.0. The compilation of octave were fluent.
> > >
> > > make check gave:
> > >
> > > FAIL: octave.test/eval-catch/eval-catch-9.m
> > > FAIL: octave.test/eval-catch/eval-catch-10.m
> > > FAIL: octave.test/try/try-9.m
> > > FAIL: octave.test/try/try-10.m
> > >                === octave Summary ===
> > > # of expected passes            1532
> > > # of unexpected failures        4
> > > make[2]: *** [check] Error 1
> > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/u/ted/octave-2.1.50/test'
> > > make[1]: *** [check] Error 2
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/u/ted/octave-2.1.50'
> > > make: *** [check] Error 2
> > >
> > > I don't know how fatal are the above failure but I was able to run 
> > > octave. Compilation of octave-forge was also fluent but 'make check' 
> > > returns  'dispatch.oct is not a valid shared library':
> > >
> > > #  make check
> > > octave -q batch_test.m
> > > error: 
> > > /usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.50/site/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu/octave-forge/dispatch.oct 
> > > is not a valid shared library
> > > error: `dispatch' undefined near line 2 column 1
> > > error: near line 2 of file 
> > > `/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.50/site/m/octave-forge/comm//PKG_ADD'
> > > [main/optim]
> > > >leval
> > > error: /u/ted/octave-forge-2003.06.02/main/optim/leval.oct is not a 
> > > valid shared library
> > > error: `leval' undefined near line 8 column 24
> > > error: evaluating argument list element number 1
> > >
> > > I get the same error when I run octave.
> > >
> > > I'll highly appreciate any help.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Ted
> > > <http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=162974>
> > >
> > >
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> _____________________________
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> CCRMA, Stanford University
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Julius O. Smith III <address@hidden>
Assoc. Prof. of Music and (by courtesy) Electrical Engineering
CCRMA, Stanford University
http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/



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