Re: installing octave-forge under slack-10.1/2.9.4

[Quentin Spencer]

Jorge Barros de Abreu wrote:

> Hi
> I am trying to install octave-forge under slack-10.1/octave-2.9.4 and was 
> occuring the following error
>
> checking for mkoctfile... mkoctfile
> conftest.cc:2:28: octave/version.h: No such file or directory
> conftest.cc:3:29: octave/defaults.h: No such file or directory
> conftest.cc:27: error: parse error before string constant
> conftest.cc:28: error: parse error before string constant
> conftest.cc:29: error: parse error before string constant
> conftest.cc:30: error: parse error before string constant
> conftest.cc:31: error: parse error before string constant
> configure: error: Could not run mkoctfile
>
> There is no version.h and defaults.h under 2.9.4.
>  

This bug was found shortly after 2.9.4 was released. It's fixed in CVS. 
The patch to 2.9.4 that fixes it can be found at 
http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/octave-maintainers/2005/950 .

-Quentin



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