Octave-3.4.3 64-bit indexing

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Nov-2011, Joe Smith wrote:

| This is my first post to this list.  If this is the wrong place to post
| questions, feel free to correct me. 
|  
| I am trying to build Octave 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 10.04.  I am using lapack-3.4.0,
| suitesparse-3.6.1.   This is on an Intel Xeon W3680.  I attempted to follow 
the
| instructions on wiki but have not had any luck getting it working.   I rebuilt
|  lapack, standard blas, suitesparse using the 64-bit settings.  I copied the
| libs (renamed the suitesparse ones to match octave defaults) and ran the
| configuration using the 64-bit setting and pointing to my lapack, blas and
| suitesparse.  This appears to be fine.  No errors about the blas not being
| 64-bit.   I build Octave it that seems fine but when I run make check it fails
| with the following:
|  
| src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/chol.cc  .......panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself
| ...
|  
| If I run:
| ./run-octave -g
| run
| octave:2> cd tests
| octave:2> fntests
|  
| I see:
| src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/chol.cc .......
| Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
| 0x00007ffff5b9339a in ztrsv_ () from /usr/src/octave-3.4.3/libcruft/.libs/
| libcruft.so.0
|  
| Any help anyone can provide to get Octave working would be great.   
| I have next to no programming skills, so if there is something you need me
| to try, please provide as many details as possible.

Why do you think you need to use the --enable-64 configure option?

Have you read the explanation of how to build Octave using this option
in the manual?

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Compiling-Octave-with-64_002dbit-Indexing.html#Compiling-Octave-with-64_002dbit-Indexing

jwe