On 03/11/2011 02:23 PM, Rob Frohne wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I thought it was working, but neglected to notice it was an earlier
> version of octave that was installed previously that was running, not
> octave 3.4. Oops!
>
> I'm still confused, because I thought static meant it didn't need any
> libraries from anywhere, that they were all linked into the executable
> (which may be big, but it would be portable).

I don't see such a library on Fedora Core 14.  Perhaps it isn't 
something that is needed.  Is there some way of leaving it out?  If not, 
can you specify a directory?

Do either of these help?

https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2009-August/015685.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=98226

Dan


>
> Rob
>
> On 03/11/2011 08:56 AM, Rob Frohne wrote:
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> Your suggestion led to the solution. It turns out that octave is in
>> the octave-3.4.0/src/.libs/ and so is the octave executable. If I run
>> it from that directory everything works. I was using the run-octave
>> (modified with the paths I copied octave to on the redhat machine) but
>> it didn't work. It appears I can just use the .lib directory or put it
>> in the paths.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> On 03/10/2011 06:24 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>> My guess is that
>>>
>>> liboctinterp-3.4.0.so
>>>
>>> is not ending up in the same location on your Ubuntu machine as where
>>> it is expected to be on your RedHat machines. First, check to make
>>> sure that liboctinterp-3.4.0.so is something that is in fact built by
>>> the Octave build process. If so, check where the library is
>>> installed. If that directory is not one accessible on the RedHat
>>> machine, then perhaps there is some command line switch during the
>>> install process to specify where libraries should be. (I'm not real
>>> familiar with building all aspects of Octave though, so it's only a
>>> guess.)
>>>
>>> But why won't someone with root access to the RedHat machine install
>>> Octave? It's part of the RedHat software data base I believe, so it
>>> is just a matter of using the Add/Remove Software menu. Or at least
>>> install the tools necessary to build Octave? Try building Octave and
>>> email the administrator with the tools that are missing, or step the
>>> administrator through the build process. (Remember, always gravel.
>>> It's an administrator after all.)
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/10/2011 08:06 PM, Rob Frohne wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I and my students need to use octave 3.4 on some Redhat machines where
>>>> we don't have root privileges, and so I built octave with the
>>>> ./configure --enable-static setting on my Ubuntu machine where I do
>>>> have
>>>> all the stuff to build octave and burned that onto a DVD and copied
>>>> that
>>>> to the Redhat boxes, but I get:
>>>>
>>>> [rob.frohne@iriri ~/Desktop/octave-3.4.0]$ ./run-octave
>>>> /home/rob.frohne/Desktop/octave-3.4.0/src/.libs/lt-octave: error while
>>>> loading shared libraries: liboctinterp-3.4.0.so: cannot open shared
>>>> object file: No such file or directory
>>>> [rob.frohne@iriri ~/Desktop/octave-3.4.0]$
>>>>
>>>> I thought making with static libraries was what I needed to do to
>>>> make a
>>>> portable executable, but I guess there is more too it. Can anyone tell
>>>> me what more there is?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>>
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