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Title: Anyone Got Octave Working On Rc8?
Post by: jubbathehat on January 07, 2005, 06:26:57 am

Anyone any hints on what to do to run Octave on RC8. looked back through lots of post but can't find definitive answer or even better an ipk.

Jubbathehat.

Title: Anyone Got Octave Working On Rc8?
Post by: lardman on January 07, 2005, 07:48:18 am

Build it with the pdaXrom cross toolchain. It's very easy and doesn't require any patches (when built with OE at least):

./configure --host=arm-linux
make

You may want to pass more options to configure so that you can run 'make install' to install to a temp dir before creating an ipk.


Si

Title: Anyone Got Octave Working On Rc8?
Post by: Zumi on January 07, 2005, 04:48:29 pm

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Build it with the pdaXrom cross toolchain. It's very easy and doesn't require any patches (when built with OE at least):

./configure --host=arm-linux
make
...

_It's_not_working_. Why is that nobody came up with an ipk so far, after those long treads?

Althought some of us cried about the g77 support (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8011&view=findpost&p=53119) for the SDK, it's still not in the RC8.

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sh-3.00# ./configure --host=arm-linux
...
checking for gfortran... no
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether  accepts -g... no
checking for f2c... no
configure: WARNING: in order to build octave, you must have a compatible
configure: WARNING: Fortran compiler or f2c installed and in your path.
configure: error: See the file INSTALL for more information.I compiled f2c but it's just not working, it compiles wrong code. And I don't want to recompile gcc.

I got octave working with a chrooted Debian (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=9654). This is the only thing what I need from Debian and now it uses 120 megabyte. And it would be much faster if it were compiled with VFP. So, as you see I really want to have octave compiled and packed in a nice ipk, but I can't do it.

Any help would be appreciated.
Zumi

Title: Anyone Got Octave Working On Rc8?
Post by: lardman on January 07, 2005, 05:13:37 pm

In my experience f2c won't work.

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Why is that nobody came up with an ipk so far, after those long treads?

It builds fine using OE and there's (therefore) one in the OZ feed ;-)

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Althought some of us cried about the g77 support  for the SDK, it's still not in the RC8.

Talk to your toolchain providers, I don't blame you for not wanting to have to re-compile. Once you have g77 working it's an easy matter to build it.

You could (probably) use the OE/OZ version by tricking LD_LIBRARY_PATH...


Si