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bug #43031: The installation documentation for Octave with 64-bit indexing doesn't mention arpack

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Submitted on:  Wed 20 Aug 2014 10:12:28 AM UTC  
 
Category: DocumentationSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Documentation
Status: FixedAssigned to: None
Originator Name: Johannes ZarlOriginator Email: -unavailable-
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 3.8.2
Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Tue 04 Nov 2014 06:36:58 AM UTC, comment #1:

I added documentation along the lines you suggested to the stable branch in this changeset (http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/ed1bf35dc11c). It will be a part of the next bug fix release if there is one, or more likely it will come out with the release of the GUI in version 4.0.

Rik <rik5>
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Wed 20 Aug 2014 10:12:28 AM UTC, original submission:

In the documentation at http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Compiling-Octave-with-64_002dbit-Indexing.html, it is not mentioned that ARPACK needs to be compiled for 64-bit integers as well.

If ARPACK is not compiled with 64-bit integers, ./configure fails to recognize ARPACK since the check program produces a segfault (as is expected). The diagnostic does not tell the user that there is an integer size mismatch.

Since the documentation on 64-bit indexing mentions all other libs that require to be compiled with 64-bit integers, I would have expected ARPACK to be mentioned as well.

Could you please add a section to the documentation like the following?

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