problems and patch for sco

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Jul-2000, Joao Cardoso <address@hidden> wrote:

| There are two things that I always have to do to compile Octave on my
| sco3.2v5.0.4 system.
| 
| 1-I have to change the Makefile, octave target, and replace
|    ../glob/libglob.a
| with
|    ../glob/glob.o ../glob/fnmatch.o
| 
| The reason is that my system has a buggy glob/fnmatch in libc.so, and so
| fnmatch() and glob() are early resolved by the linker, with the result
| that Octave libglob.a is never used. It does not matter where in the
| command line ../glob/libglob.a appears.
| This can't be solved except substituting the library by its two object
| files. 
| 
|    LIBGLOB='$(TOPDIR)/glob/glob.o $(TOPDIR)/glob/fnmatch.o'
| 
| After all the library only has two object files...

OK, I made this change.

Thanks,

jwe