Re: [Plplot-devel] netbsd portability effort status--- one showstopper and 3 other problems

[<jc...@fe...>]

On Wednesday 26 March 2003 03:05, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
| On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Joao Cardoso wrote:
...

| Inspired by your question and these results, I did a lot of
| experimentation and finally found that if
|
| ld -o plplot_octave.oct plplot_octave.o -L../../src/.libs -lplplotd
|
| is replaced by
|
| g++ -shared -o plplot_octave.oct plplot_octave.o -L../../src/.libs
| -lplplotd
|
| then all the linking problems disappear!  So clearly, the netbsd
| version of mkoctfile is set up improperly for that system:
|
| i.e.,
|
| grep SH_LD `which mkoctfile` |grep '='
|
| : ${SH_LD="ld"}
| : ${SH_LDFLAGS=""}
|
| When it should have been the Linux result:
|
| grep SH_LD `which mkoctfile` | grep '='
|
| : ${SH_LD="/usr/bin/g++"}
| : ${SH_LDFLAGS="-shared"}
|
| Have you been able to build octave on your OSF1 system?

I have not tried, but the system mkoctfile says:

: ${SH_LD="c++"}
: ${SH_LDFLAGS="-shared -Xlinker -expect_unresolved -Xlinker '*'"}

Forget my other mail where I ask you to run octave_config_info.
Only on octave versions 2.1xx is there information about SH_LD and 
SH_LDFLAGS.

|  I am trying
| to get some idea (2 data points are more statistically significant
| than 1 ...;-)) whether this is just a netbsd problem with mkoctfile
| or are we going to have consistent problems when we use mkoctfile on
| any Unix system other than Linux?

Perhaps you should contact the package maintainer, or send a bug-report 
to the Octave lists. The second is not very likely to show results, as 
2.1.xx is the main concern.

Joao

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