Re: Statically linking octave-2.1.72 in MacOS X

[Carlos Sánchez de La Lama]

> | After the I edit src/Makefile to comment out the line "XERBLA = ../
> | libcruft/blas-xtra/xerbla.o"
>
> You really do want to have Octave's xerbla.o.  If you don't, and you
> hit an error in a call to a BLAS or LAPACK function, then I think the
> default xerbla action is to do a Fortran STOP or an exit(1) on you and
> dump you out of Octave immediately without any cleanup or chance to
> save your work.

Ok. You probably saved me from suffering this on my work :-)

> If your system makes it impossible to override the definition of a
> fucntion in the LAPACK/BLAS with your own, especially xerbla, then I
> think it is probably a bug in your system's LAPACK/BLAS library.

Could be. In fact it is only a linking warning, the octave main exec  
is linked in without Makefile modifications using the configure line  
I posted. It seems it is not possible to link in only parts of the  
BLAS framework, but I need to investigate a bit more.

Thanks!


Carlos Sánchez de La Lama
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