Re: Compile problem

[Andrew Case]

Thanks.  I figured out how to use the Fedora Extras and managed to get
octave up and running.

thx,
.A

On 11/21/05, Quentin Spencer <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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