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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!iol!gate.ohs.ie!usenet From: steveo@iol.ie (Steve O'Hara-Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Porting scilab-2,2 - Two problems - Any ideas ?? Date: 29 Mar 1996 09:57:11 GMT Organization: Steve O'Hara-Smith Lines: 25 Sender: root@gate.ohs.ie (Steve O'Hara-Smith) Message-ID: <4jgc5n$2dj@gate.ohs.ie> References: <4jbkri$1ak@gate.ohs.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-260.dublin.iol.ie X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 In article <4jbkri$1ak@gate.ohs.ie>, steveo@gate.ohs.ie (Steve O'Hara-Smith) writes: > I am in the process of porting INRIA's scilab package to FreeBSD The FPE problem is now solved - many thanks to the kind person who pointed me at fpsetmask(0) to allow Inf and NaN instead of core dumping. > > The other problem is with dynamic linking, Scilab uses the dld >package to link externally defined routines at runtime. It works :) almost :( >The only problem is when the external routine uses functions in a shared >library the references don't get picked up. > This little horror is still with me, I could use static linking to get round it (UGH) but I would prefer a clean solution. I'm going to have a look in the ld sources and see if there are any clues in there any ideas for this one? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve O'Hara-Smith E-Mail: steveo@iol.ie