Re: Octave-forge and 'pkg install' question

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- "E. Joshua Rigler" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> My system is a 64-bit Intel Xeon machine that runs Redhat Enterprise
> Linux v4.  I have discovered that many of Redhat's standard library
> packages fail to create the lib*.so symbolic links in the /usr/lib64
> (or /usr/X11/lib64) subdirectories, even though the actual 64-bit
> library files (i.e., lib*.so.X.Y) are present and valid.  The result
> is that many source code distributions that need to link to these
> libraries end up trying, and failing, to link to 32-bit versions of
> the library instead.  My solution is to create a directory called
> /tmp/lib64, generate the necessary symbolic links there, and compile
> everything with the -L/tmp/lib64 option (I do NOT have root access to
> this machine).
> 
> Now, I recently compiled and installed Octave 3.0.1.  It took a little
> effort, but using the solution described above (plus a few other
> necessary tricks), everything finished, and 'make check' came back
> perfect.  However, when I tried to install the Octave-forge package
> 'plot' using "pkg install plot-1.0.4.tar.gz", I got errors related to
> the fact that the compiler was unable to link to libX11.so, for the
> very reason described above.  I assume any Octave-forge package that
> requires compiling and linking against such libraries will also fail.
> 
> So, my question is:  How does one force the pkg package installer to
> compile things with user-provided flags (LDFLAGS=-L/tmp/lib64 for
> example)?  Or do I just need to compile and install these packages by
> hand?
> 
> -EJR
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Have you also modified contents of LD_LIBRARY_PATH to have in it /tmp/lib64 ?

When you invoke 'octave' and try to build a package, is LDFLAGS set and does it 
still
contain /tmp/lib64 ?

Regards,
  Sergei.

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