cannot pkg install: /usr/bin/ld: skipping imcompatible ..liboctinterp.so when searching for -loctinterp

[Dan Mahoney]

Morning,
I know little about octave.
It seems that I know even less about system admin work.
Which I do.
I am attempting to install  octave-forge-bundle-20080831
I run octave
cd to where my *.tar.gz are.


octave:4> pkg install ann-1.0.1.tar.gz
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/octave-3.0.1/liboctinterp.so 
when searching for -loctinterp
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -loctinterp
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: error: Could not run mkoctfile
error: the configure script returned the following error: checking for 
gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for mkoctfile... mkoctfile
error: called from `pkg:configure_make' in file 
/usr/share/octave/3.0.1/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1232, column 2
octave:4> exit


system is RHEL5 WS X86_64
2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 13:58:24 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 
x86_64 GNU/Linux


ls -l ld.so.conf.d/
total 32
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22 May  2  2008 octave-i386.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 May  2  2008 octave-x86_64.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Sep  4  2007 qt-i386.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22 Sep  4  2007 qt-x86_64.conf

cat octave-i386.conf
/usr/lib/octave-3.0.1

cat octave-x86_64.conf
/usr/lib64/octave-3.0.1

Can someone help?
thanks
dan


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