[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #34997] Octave tries to load shared libraries even with --disable-shared

[Satish BD]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34997>

                 Summary: Octave tries to load shared libraries even with
--disable-shared
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: bdsatish
            Submitted on: Tue 06 Dec 2011 11:49:43 AM GMT
                Category: Libraries
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Installation
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Satish BD
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.4.3
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

Hi,

I was installing specfun-1.0.9 (with Octave 3.4.3) when I encountered this
error:


octave:1> pkg install /tmp/specfun-1.0.9.tar.gz
warning: function /home/debian/octave/specfun-1.0.9/erfcx.m shadows abuilt-in
function
warning: /home/debian/octave/specfun-1.0.9/laguerre.m: possible Matlab-style
short-circuit operator at line 30, column 11
warning: gen_doc_cache: unusable help text found in file 'test_sncndn'
warning: load_path:
/home/debian/octave/specfun-1.0.9/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-api-v45+: No such
file or directory
no API for dynamic loading is available
error: called from `gen_doc_cache>create_cache' in file
/home/debian/foss/installed/octave/share/octave/3.4.3/m/help/gen_doc_cache.m
near line 93, column 17
error: called from:
error:   /home/debian/foss/installed/octave/share/octave/3.4.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at
line 832, column 5
error:   /home/debian/foss/installed/octave/share/octave/3.4.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at
line 361, column 9


Ignoring the warnings, the error says "no API for dynamic loading is
available". This is a bug because it is trying to load shared libraries, even
when they were disabled:


# Debian Squeeze, x86_64 
./configure --prefix=$HOME/foss/installed/octave   \
      --disable-shared --disable-dl --enable-static --with-pic  \ 
      --with-blas="-L/home/debian/foss/installed/lapack -lblas"  \
      --with-lapack="-L/home/debian/foss/installed/lapack -llapack" 


That "no api.." error msg seems to come from oct-shlib.cc file. Some
discussion about this bug is here:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CABDtPkQieDrxX-sP1EMMaWmVd6Vg%3DQiRGN-Myu6Sq1fvPHkEHw%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=octave-dev







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