Re: linking liboctave fails (lapack missing?)

[Benjamin Lindner]

Benjamin Lindner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just tried to build the recent development tip on mingw32 and building 
> fails at linking liboctave with a phletora of missing symbols from the 
> lapack library.
>
> looking at the linker command I see that indeed there is no -llapack 
> present.
>
> Digging the changelog I find that at revision 9490:3aeb7d881578
> $(BLAS_LIBS) has been removed from LINK_DEPS in liboctave/makefile.in
>
> I guess it should still be there, since arpack, qrupdate and quite some 
> octave code depends on it.

I see that there is already a thread covering this topic on the bugs 
list. Sorry for the double-post.

Hovever, liboctave directly uses functinos from lapack, and uses the 
qrupdate and qrpack library which both depend on lapack, so lapack 
*should* be listed in LINK_DEPS.

benjamin