Re: linking liboctave fails (lapack missing?)

[Thomas Treichl]

Benjamin Lindner schrieb:
> Thomas Treichl wrote:
> > Benjamin Lindner schrieb:
> > > I also tried with updated versions of msys and tools, but the same 
> > > errors occur.
> > >
> > > $ autoheader --version
> > > autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.63
> > > Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
> > > <http://gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
> > > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> > > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> > >
> > > Written by Roland McGrath and Akim Demaille.
> > >
> > > $ automake --version
> > > automake (GNU automake) 1.11
> > > Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later 
> > > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
> > > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> > > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> > >
> > > Written by Tom Tromey <address@hidden>
> > >        and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden>.
> > >
> > > benjamin
> >
> > The problems do come somewhere from inside of "m4_ifnblank", 
> > "m4_ifblank" and "m4_toupper" in file aclocal.m4 and macro 
> > OCTAVE_CHECK_LIBRARY. It seems that these functions don't like any of 
> > AC_DEFINE, AC_LANG_POP etc. as an argument, but I don't get it 
> > corrected...
>
> As a wild guess, can it have something to do with the version of perl or 
> m4 used?
>
> $ perl --version
> This is perl, v5.6.1 built for msys
> $ m4 --version
> GNU M4 1.4.7
>
> benjamin

I don't know Benjamin, mine are not very much newer:

MacMini:~/Development/octave Me$ perl --version
This is perl, v5.8.6 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
(with 5 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2004, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.

MacMini:~/Development/octave Me$ m4 --version
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.11
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Rene' Seindal.

Anybody seeing those configure problems on Linux?