Re: Compile problem

[Quentin Spencer]

Andrew Case wrote:

> I have downloaded the Octave source for Linux (I'm running Fedora Core
> 4 64 bit) and I'm trying to compile and run it.  I've unzipped
> everything into a folder called 'octave' in my home directory, and I'm
> following the instructions in the INSTALL document.  When I run 'make
> check' I get the following output (actually several pages of FAIL
> messages with the following summary:
>
> # of expected passes            5
> # of unexpected failures        1195
> WARNING: octave_version failed:
> couldn't execute "../src/octave": no such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [check] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/acase/octave/octave-2.1.71/test'
> make[1]: *** [check] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/acase/octave/octave-2.1.71'
> make: *** [check] Error 2
>
> Any suggestions about how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. 
> I've looked through the mailing list archives but I haven't been able
> to find anything directly relevant.  I'm not a programmer (outside of
> nice tidy environments like MATLAB, at least), so I may have
> overlooked something completely obvious.
>
> I have all the up to date versions of g++, flex, bison, and gperf.
>  

You probably also need dejagnu. At the end of the configure command, I get:

configure: WARNING: I didn't find runtest -- install DejaGNU if you want 
to run `make check'

-Quentin



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