mpirun octave hangs

[Jonathan Sievers]

Dear all,

I'm using octave for MPI calculations, using wrappers to the mpi
routines that I wrote myself.  I've done this many times in the past
and it has worked very well (and thanks to the developers!).  I'm
compile under ubuntu 14.04, with gcc 4.8.2.  Everything compiles fine,
and octave runs as usual, but when I invoke it with "mpirun octave" it
hangs.  This is true for octave versions 3.6.3, 3.6.4, and 3.8.1, and
with several versions of openmpi and mpich.  It gets as far as
printing

address@hidden:~/act/ninkasi_octave$ mpirun -np 1 octave
warning: docstring file
'/home/sievers/local/share/octave/3.8.1/etc/built-in-docstrings' not
found
GNU Octave, version 3.8.1
.
.
.
Read http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports.
For information about changes from previous versions, type 'news'.

and then hangs.  I haven't installed all the dependencies, but it is
linked against current fftw and openblas.  My configure script is as
follows:

LOCAL=/home/sievers/local/
BLAS="-L${LOCAL}/lib -lopenblas -lpthread -lgomp"
INCLUDES="-I${LOCAL}/include"
LDIRS="-L${LOCAL}/lib"

export CC=mpicc
export F77=mpif77
export CXX=mpicxx
export CFLAGS="-O3 ${INCLUDES}"

./configure --prefix=${LOCAL} --with-blas="${BLAS}" --with-fftw3
CPPFLAGS="${INC}"  --disable-docs

MPI works normally otherwise, and in fact when I fire up octave 3.8.1
with mpich, my mpi calls work from within octave.  If anyone had
suggestions, I'd be most appreciative!

Thanks,

Jon