Re: pkg/42683 (math/octave core dumped on NetBSD x86 pkgsrc-2009Q4)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42683; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/42683 (math/octave core dumped on NetBSD x86 pkgsrc-2009Q4)
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:34:44 +0200

 On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:50:06PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >  It is apparently getting its modules/plugins (?) built as executables
 >  instead of shared libs. See the second followup message in the PR.
 
 Well, looking at the build log, it is using
 
 libtool  --mode=link c++ -shared -o amd.oct pic/amd.o ...
 
 which is clearly broken and only ever worked by accident. Changing
 -shared into -module might be good enough.
 
 Joerg