oregonator prints %.-1e

[John W. Eaton]

On  7-May-1997, Jeff Mason <address@hidden> wrote:

| I recently installed octave 2.0.5 on Linux - the interpreter
| works fine but when I make the oct-file example oregonator.oct
| it prints the following when run:
| 
| octave:1> oregonator([1,2,3],0)
| ans =
|  
|    %.-1e
|    %.-1e
|    %.-1e
|  
| octave:2>
|  
| removing the .oct file and running the .m file gives the right answer.
|
| Does anyone recognize this problem?

Did you use --enable-shared when you configured octave?  I seem to
remember seeing this problem when I used dynamic linking on a Linux
system without shared versions of the Octave libraries.

| I am also trying to use the octave
| libraries but whenever I link against libf2c I get the link error:
| 
| /usr/lib/libf2c.so: undefined reference to 'MAIN__'
| 
| I get this *any* time I link to that lib, by adding -lf2c to a gcc
| command to compile a typical hello.c for instance. Can anyone tell me
| what I need to do here?

Pass -u MAIN__ to gcc when you are linking.

jwe