Re: problems and patch for sco

[Joao Cardoso]

"John W. Eaton" wrote:
> 
> On  6-Jul-2000, Joao Cardoso <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | 2-The other modification is that I have to prepend
> | LD_RUN_PATH=$LD_RUN_PATH:/usr/local/lib/octave-2.1.30 to $(CXX), also in
> | the octave target.
> | The reason is that -rpath is not supported by my system.
> | The only possibility that I see is to define a symbol for Makeconf.in,
> | configure.in and src/Makefile.in, LD_CXX e.g., that on all systems will
> | be equal to CXX, except on sco where it will be
> |
> | LD_CXX="LD_RUN_PATH=$LD_RUN_PATH:$(octlibdir) $CXX"
> 
> Hmm.  It seems like it would be better to have a test that detects the
> problem instead of just assuming that this will be required on all (or
> even some) SCO systems.  On the other hand, it might not actually
> cause any trouble.

I only have sco-5.0.4. The current release is 5.0.5, but as far as I
know there is still no support for -rpath or equivalent. libtool, X11R6,
etc, all use this same method for sco.

> 
> | The enclosed patch "correct" this problems and add some more
> | configuration  specific stuf to sco.
> 
> It seems the patch was missing from your message.  Can you please send
> it again?

Sure, here it is against today cvs.

Thanks,
Joao

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jwe

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