RE: Installin Octave 2.9.7 in freeBSD (PC-BSD distribution)

[Joe Koski]

on 8/7/06 1:29 PM, José Luis García Pallero at address@hidden wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to install octave in a machine with freeBSD (PC-BSD distribution) operating system installed. Whe I run ./configure, at the end, the script says that didn't find hdf5, blas, fftw, gplk, umfpack, colamd, ccolamd, cholmod and cxsparse libraries. In my system, hdf5 is installed in /usr/local/lib ( libhdf5.a, libhdf5_cpp.a, libhdf5_hl.a, libhdf5.so and libhdf5_nl.so archives). Umfpack is installed in the same directory too (libumfpack.a archive). In the directory /usr/local/include are installed only the headers of umfpack (in a directory named UMFPACK). I've tried exec ./configure with the parameters --libdir=/usr/local/lib --includedir=/usr/local/include (and --includedir=/usr/local/include/UMFPACK), but the message is the same. 
> Somebody knows what's the matter?
>
> P.D.: Sorry, but my english is very bad
José,

I assume that you are trying to install octave-2.9.7 with g77. You need more than just UMFPACK in my experience. You also need the other libraries (libcolamd.a, libccolamd.a, etc.).

When I had similar problems on by Mac, it was because of the file permissions on the .h header files associated with the libraries. Check config.log to see what header files are missing, and check that you have at least chmod 0644 on header files in /usr/local/include. I had to install the header files for the metis library into several locations (/usr/local/include, /usr/local/include/metis and /usr/local/include/ufsparse before the configure problem went completely away. Be sure to configure with 

  ./configure —enable-shared —disable-shared

Joe