Octave 3.03 build Problems

[John W. Eaton]

On  5-Mar-2009, David Laxer wrote:

| I'm getting the following linker error building either Octave 3.0.3 or 
| 3.1.53 on RHEL5:
| 
| /usr/bin/ld: /opt/UMFPACK/Lib/libumfpack.a(umfpack_di_defaults.o): 
| relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when 
| making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
| /opt/UMFPACK/Lib/libumfpack.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
| 
| I tried compiling SuiteSpare and Octave with -fPIC, but it didn't help.  
| gcc is version 4.1.2-44

Are you building everything from sources yourself?  If so, why?
Aren't there packages for RHEL5 for these depencendies?

jwe