Re: building 3.2.3 but not finding arpack

[Ben Abbott]

On Thursday, November 19, 2009, at 02:34PM, "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> 
wrote:
>On 19-Nov-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>| >Yours says checking for F77_FUNC(dseupd,DSEUPD), which seems odd since
>| >the F77_FUNC macro is not used in the ARPACK test or the
>| >OCTAVE_CHECK_LIBRARY macro from acinclude.m4
>| >
>| >I'm not sure why the lines in the configure script (19002 vs 28523).
>| >What version of autoconf are you using?  I have 2.64.
>| >
>| >Have you run autogen.sh recently?
>| >
>| >jwe
>| 
>| I ran autogen.sh must prior to trying this build.
>| 
>| My autoconf is 2.63.
>
>Are you sure your configure script is up to date?  Does it have the
>lines
>
>  save_LIBS="$LIBS"
>  LIBS="$LAPACK_LIBS $BLAS_LIBS $FLIBS $LIBS"
>  OCTAVE_CHECK_LIBRARY(arpack, ARPACK,
>    [arpack not found.  The eigs function will be disabled.],
>    [],
>    [dseupd],
>    [Fortran 77], [don't use the ARPACK library, disable eigs function])
>  LIBS="$save_LIBS"
>
>or something else?  If so, where is the "F77_FUNC(dseupd,DSEUPD)"
>coming from in the config.log message?  The reason I suspect an old
>version of configure.ac is that it used to be
>
>  save_LIBS="$LIBS"
>  LIBS="$LAPACK_LIBS $BLAS_LIBS $FLIBS $LIBS"
>  OCTAVE_CHECK_LIBRARY(arpack, ARPACK,
>    [arpack not found.  The eigs function will be disabled.],
>    [],
>    [F77_FUNC(dseupd,DSEUPD)],
>    [], [don't use the ARPACK library, disable eigs function])
>  LIBS="$save_LIBS"
>
>which would account for both the missing LAPACK and BLAS libs and the
>"F77_FUNC(dseupd,DSEUPD)" name appearing in the checking message.
>
>If your configure.ac script really is up to date, then what are the
>values of LAPACK_LIBS and BLAS_LIBS at this point in the configure
>script?  If they are defined, I didn't see them in the config.log
>output you posted.
>
>jwe

John, I think I there is some confusion.

I'm trying to build 3.2.3

    http://hg.tw-math.de/release-3-2-x/

There is no configure.ac file there.

As I'm having even bigger problems with ... 

    http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/

As I'm not sure if my trouble with the devevelopers sources are related to 
libtool, someother recent change to octave, or a change on my end (Mac OSX, 
Fink, etc), I thought I'd back up and try something that has always worked.

Ben