Re: Compiling octave on RH 7.0

[Trond Eivind GlomsrØd]

"Edward S. Meadows" <address@hidden> writes:

> I am attempting to compile octave-2.1.31 on my RH 7.0
> machine.
> 
> I have a plain vanilla RH 7.0 installation that I keep
> current with the latest RH updates.
> 
> The configure step seems to show that several libraries
> (like ncurses and termcap) are missing when in fact they are
> actually present in their default locations when installed
> via RPM. 

Did you remember to install ncurses-devel etc?

> Then when I try to compile, the compilation fails
> due to apparent C++ syntax errors.  I'm using gcc 2.96.

This was fixed in Octave CVS this week.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.



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