sparse seg-faults on Solaris 2.8

[Johansson Nicklas (RTLSN-NPJ)]

Hello,

I have compiled Octave 2.1.59 on Solaris 2.8 using gcc 3.3 and it
seems to be working fine. The compilation process is smooth except
for the annoying error when liboctave.so is linked with both -lglob
and -L../glob and fails with fatal relocation error. Simply removing
-glob and relinking solves this problem.

I have also compiled octave-forge-2004.09.09 with Octave-2.1.59,
but I'm having troubles with the sparse functions. Writing

 S = sparse(3,3);

causes Octave to panic with segmentation violation. The same problem
exists with octave-2.1.57 and octave-forge-2004.07.07.

I've managed to track the execution to dCreate_CompCol_Matrix in the
SuperLU package before the seg-fault occurs, but I've failed to find
any explanation.

Have anyone experienced the same problem and/or found a solution?


There are some minor problems with compiling and installing
octave-forge on Solaris, e.g. the use of sh v.s bash. Should
I post them to this forum or use the source-forge forum?


Kind Regards
Nicklas Johansson
P.S.: I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but a post on the
octave-forge forum directed questions to this mailing list. Please
correct me if I'm wrong.



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