[OctDev] Three build failures on alpha,hppa,ia64 (Re: octave-forge 2004-02-12 release)

[Dirk E. <ed...@de...>]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:28:39AM -0500, Paul Kienzle wrote:
> Tested against octave-2.1.53 and octave-2.1.40.  Many functions will
> also work on earlier versions of Octave.  Use make -k to build what
> functions can be built and ignore the rest.

Cf http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=octave-forge and see the build
failures for alpha, hppa and ia64 for the Feb 9 snapshot I uploaded earlier
-- all in the same xml area. hppa may have the best compiler warning in
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=octave-forge&ver=2004.02.09-1&arch=hppa&stamp=1076389950&file=log&as=raw

mkoctfile -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 -v -c xmlread.cc -o xmlread.o
/usr/bin/g++ -c -fPIC -I/usr/include/octave-2.1.53
-I/usr/include/octave-2.1.53/octave -O2 -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 xmlread.cc -o
xmlread.o
/usr/bin/gcc -c xmltree_read.c -o xmltree_read.o
/usr/bin/gcc -c xmltree.c -o xmltree.o
mkoctfile -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 -v xmlread.o xmltree_read.o xmltree.o -o
xmlread.oct
/usr/bin/g++ -shared -o xmlread.oct xmlread.o xmltree_read.o xmltree.o
/usr/bin/ld: xmltree_read.o: relocation R_PARISC_DPREL21L can not be used
when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
xmltree_read.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [xmlread.oct] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
build/buildd/octave-forge-2004.02.09/main/miscellaneous'
make[2]: *** [miscellaneous/] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory build/buildd/octave-forge-2004.02.09/main'
make[1]: *** [main/] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory build/buildd/octave-forge-2004.02.09'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
******************************************************************************
Build finished at 20040210-0512
FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died]

xmlread is compiled with -fPIC, xmltree isn't. Could someone have a look at
the corresponding Makefile and send a patch?

Thanks!

Dirk

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