Re: help octave forge

[Luke Scharf]

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 19:30, Matt Wesley wrote:
> I'm new to Linux and Octave and have been trying to install the octave-forge 
> package. During make it gives a large number of various errors and it 
> aborts. As far as I know I have followed the instructions correctly. If 
> anyone would like to help me out in this one I'd be very grateful.

I had a similar problem.  There were two issues:

        1. Get the right version of octave-forge.  Each release of
        octave-forge is for a specific version of Octave.  It's noted on
        the page, but it took me a couple of downloads to get it
        right... :-)
        
        2. Instead of "make", use "make -k".  this will continue if
        something won't compile, and skip the functions/modules that
        don't compile.  I did this and the functions I wanted worked.

I hope this is both correct and helpful!

-Luke



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