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

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

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:53:22PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 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!

This seems to at least not do harm on i386 where the resulting xmlread still 
appears to work. Well the help comes up, and 'xmlread("/dev/null")' ends
gracefully.  We'll see what alpha, hppa and ia64 will do.

--- octave-forge-2004.02.12.orig/main/miscellaneous/Makefile
+++ octave-forge-2004.02.12/main/miscellaneous/Makefile
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@
 	$(MKOCTFILE) -c listencanfork.c
 
 xmltree.o: xmltree.c xmltree.h
-	$(CC) -c $< -o $@
+	$(MKOCTFILE) $(MISCDEFS) -c $<
+#	$(CC) -c $< -o $@
 
 ifdef FLEXML
 xmltree_read.l: xmltree_read.act octave.dtd
@@ -36,12 +37,15 @@
 endif
 
 xmltree_read.o: xmltree_read.c xmltree_read.h
-	$(CC) -c $< -o $@
+	$(MKOCTFILE) $(MISCDEFS) -c $<
+#	$(CC) -c $< -o $@
 
 xmlread.o: xmlread.cc xmltree_read.h xmltree.h
-	$(MKOCTFILE) -c $< -o $@
+	$(MKOCTFILE) $(MISCDEFS) -c $<
+#	$(MKOCTFILE) -c $< -o $@
 
 xmlread.oct: xmlread.o xmltree_read.o xmltree.o
-	$(MKOCTFILE) $^ -o $@
+	$(MKOCTFILE) $^ 
+#	$(MKOCTFILE) $^ -o $@
 
 clean: ; -$(RM) *.o octave-core core *.oct *~


> 
> Dirk
> 
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