Re: Installing octave on Linux

[Zdenek Hurak]

Martin, did you set --enable-shared option before compiling octave? As far
as I know, this is necessary before compiling octave-forge.

Zdenek Hurak.





Martin Rosenberger wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I did install octave 2.1.71 and octave-forge-2005.06.13 successfully on
> windows OP using cygwin. I did some tests executing a matlab routine
> with plenty of m.files
> 
> The next step was to install octave 2.1.71 and octave-forge-2005.06.13
> on a linux Cluster.
> 
> I got some trouble.
> 
> When starting octave the first error message was:
> 
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> 
> error:
> 
> /usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu/octave-forge
> /dispatch.oct
> is not a valid shared library
> error: `dispatch' undefined near line 2 column 1
> error: near line 2 of file
> 
> `/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m/octave-forge/comm//PKG_ADD'
> error: source: error sourcing file
> 
> `/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m/octave-forge/comm//PKG_ADD'
> 
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> 
> When executing my matlab routine with a lot of m-files the next message
> occurs:
> 
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> 
> error:
> 
> /usr/local/libexec/octave/2.1.71/site/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu/octave-forge
> /pchip_deriv.o
> 
> ct is not a valid shared library
> error: `pchip_deriv' undefined near line 74 column 7
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 74, column 5
> error: called from `pchip' in file
> 
> `/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m/octave-forge/splines/pchip.m'
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 143, column 17
> error: evaluating if command near line 112, column 3
> error: called from `interp1' in file
> 
> `/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m/octave-forge/general/interp1.m'
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 286, column 17
> error: called from `InitFZGL' in file
> `/home/rosenberger/OPT/Init/InitFZGL.m'
> error: near line 45 of file `/home/rosenberger/OPT/CalcSingle.m'
> 
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> 
> Another problem was, that I always get error-messages when there is a
> statement to execute in .octaverc, no matter what statement it is
> 
> e. g.:
> error: near line 32 of file `/home/rosenberger/.octaverc'
> 
> the .octaverc file ist attached
> 
> 
> I do not know lot of linux, so if you have some information to give,
> please give it in detail
> 
> Thank you
> Martin
> 
> P. S.: simple calculations are working within octave
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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