Problems Compiling/Installing octave-forge

[Graupner, Achim Dr.]

Dear all,

I am currently try to install octave on RedHat-2.4.21

Ocvate compiles well, I however do encounter problems with the 
octave-forge-2006.01.28 packages which are indeed requried to use octave 
efficiently.
I am not keen enough about g++ to know what to do, this is error message when 
running make:

mkoctfile -Doctave_idx_type=int -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 -v -DUSE_TERM -DHAVE_TERMCAP_H 
csvexplode.cc
g++ -c -fPIC -I/home/graupner/local-RedHat-2.4.21//include/octave-2.1.72 
-I/home/graupner/local-RedHat-2.4.21//include/octave-2.1.72/octave 
-I/home/graupner/local-RedHat-2.4.21//include -g -O2 -Doctave_idx_type=int 
-DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 -DUSE_TERM -DHAVE_TERMCAP_H csvexplode.cc -o csvexplode.o
g++ -shared -Wl,-Bsymbolic -o csvexplode.oct csvexplode.o 
-L/home/graupner/local-RedHat-2.4.21//lib/octave-2.1.72 -loctinterp -loctave 
-lcruft -llapack -lblas -lreadline -lncurses -lm -L/usr/lib64 
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.2.3 
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.2.3/../../../../lib64 
-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.2.3/../../.. -L/lib/../lib64 
-L/usr/lib/../lib64 -lfrtbegin -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s
/usr/bin/ld: 
/home/graupner/local-RedHat-2.4.21//lib/octave-2.1.72/liboctinterp.a(defun.o): 
relocation R_X86_64_32S can not be used when making a shared object; recompile 
with -fPIC
/home/graupner/local-RedHat-2.4.21//lib/octave-2.1.72/liboctinterp.a: could not 
read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Any ideas?

A second problem I have with m-functions. In octave-forge/main/set there are 
the 
following files:
intersect.m
ismember.m.in
setdiff.m.in
setxor.m
unique.m.in

the *.in-files are not available out from octave. What is the extension good 
for 
and why those files are not installed? In octave-forge-2004.11.16 I did not 
have 
encountered this problem.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Achim




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