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problems with lite-kernel and friends


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: problems with lite-kernel and friends
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 12:54:01 -0600

On  2-Apr-1998, Mario Storti <address@hidden> wrote:

| 
| I successfully compiled Octave  under Linux RedHat 5.0. The executable
| was >10Mb  in  size and I  need  dynamic-linking in order to  run .oct
| files, so   that I tried:
| 
| $ ./configure  --enable-shared --enable-lite-kernel --enable-dl
| 
| but then Octave can't find some routines (those in libcruft, I guess),
| for instance:
| 
| > octave> rand(10)
| > error: `rand' undefined near line 6 column 1
| > error: evaluating index expression near line 6, column 1
| > octave> eig(a)
| > error: `eig' undefined near line 8 column 1
| > error: evaluating index expression near line 8, column 1
| > octave> 
| 
| I had to manually add `/usr/local/lib/octave' to `/etc/ld.so.conf' and
| run  `ldconfig'. It seems  that  the octave libraries liboctinterp.so,
| liboctave.so and   libcruft.so   are    properly  installed  in    the
| ld.so.cache. 

I don't think you should have to do that if Octave was linked with the
correct -rpath option.

| Sorry if this  is a dumb question. 
| 
| Any hints?

Are the .oct files installed?  What is your LOADPATH?

jwe



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