Re: Octave 2.9.0 available for ftp

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Mar-2005, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:

| Ok. However I just tried to build 2.9.0 if the UMFPACK stuff was built 
| with the atlas cblas binding. In that case config.log contained messages 
| like
| 
| configure:7268: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lumfpack  -lamd 
| -lhdf5 -lz -lm  >&5
| /usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.4.1/../../../libumfpack.so: 
| undefined reference to `cblas_dgemv'
| /usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.4.1/../../../libumfpack.so: 
| undefined reference to `cblas_dtrsm'
| /usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.4.1/../../../libumfpack.so: 
| undefined reference to `cblas_zgemv'
| 
| etc. So it seems the test as defined in configure.in is not generic 
| enough. If there an autoconf macro that just tests for the presence of a 
| function (nm like functionality) without actually building anything? Is 
| would avoid this issue...

How about also testing for cblas before testing fro umfpack?

jwe