problem while making octave-2.1.44

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Apr-2003, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

| Following previous SOS and advice (Thanks again to Dan Hitt) let me
| sum up the situation:
| System: slackware 8.0 on a celeron 600 MHz with 320 Mbyte RAM
| After ./configure, upgraded the readline library and installed gcc-3.2.2
| on /usr/local/gcc-3.2.2
| Issued the commands
| PATH=/usr/local/gcc-3.2.2/bin:$PATH
| echo $PATH
| -> /usr/local/gcc-3.2.2/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:
| /usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:
| /home/avraham/bin:/home/avraham/scripts:/usr/local/MuPaD_200/share/bin
| LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/gcc-3.2.2/lib/
| ./configure
| 
| The output of configure announced that despite the new path (everything
| was done as user in the same shell) it will still use the /usr/bin/gcc
| So I tried:
| CC=/usr/local/gcc-3.2.2/bin/gcc CXX=/usr/local/gcc-3.2.2/bin/g++
| G77=/usr/local/gcc-3.2.2/bin/g77 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/octave-2.1.44
|  --enable-shared --enable-dl --enable-lite-kernel
| 
| This time gcc and g++ were the correct ones. Only g77 was the old one.
| Considering that less important I continued with:
| 
| make -k
| 
| I append the head and the tail of the output. Apparently I amd still
| missing something on the system, or I still did something wrong:
| The head:

| ./gendoc > DOCSTRINGS-t
| ./gendoc: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object 
file: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory

This message is telling you that running gendoc doesn't work.  So I'd
guess that something is wrong with the installation of the compiler on
your system.  It looks like the system doesn't know how to find shared
libraries that are needed at run time.

jwe



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