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wierd compile on Debian 2.2r4
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
wierd compile on Debian 2.2r4 |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:32:59 -0500 |
On 29-Apr-2002, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
| While running 'make' when installing octave-2.1.35 on my
| debian 2.2r4 box, I would repeatedly recieve some
| compilation error and 'make' would exit. And everytime
| it exited, I would just type 'make' again and the
| compilation would then run smoothly until it hit
| another 'hiccup.' So I just kept typing make and it
| eventually compiled everything. And then 'make install'
| went smoothly and it eventually all worked out.
|
| Overall - I'm pleased that it eventually compiled and
| installed okay. But I just thought this was kind of
| wierd. Has anyone else had this problem? Is this
| common when compiling from source? Can I expect
| problems down the road when using octave seeing how the
| compilation didn't go so smoothly?
No, I don't think it is not a common problem. There should not be any
failures during the build that cause it to stop. What error messages
did you see when these problems occurred?
jwe
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