On mkoctfile and Spline Package Installation

[Nose Nada]

Thanks Soren!

I do have the mkoctfile command available in the Octave terminal.
Do you think I should install 'octave-headers' and 'octave-devel'?

Looking forward,

Omar


Søren Hauberg wrote:
> 
> I don't know the fedora system, but on many systems you need a package 
> called 'octave-headers', 'octave-devel' or something like that. Check if 
> you have the 'mkoctfile' file command available in a terminal. That's 
> the one you need.
> 
> Søren
> 
> Nose Nada skrev:
>> Thanks David!
>> I'm using Fedora 7 and I think that the compilers are installed. For
>> example:
>> 
>> address@hidden /]# rpm -q gcc
>> gcc-4.1.2-12
>> 
>> Is this enough? Or am I missing something?
>> 
>> Omar
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> dbateman wrote:
>>> Nose Nada wrote:
>>>> Hello there!
>>>>
>>>> I have just recently installed Octave under Fedora 7. Everything OK.
>>>> However, when I tried to installed the spline-gcvspl package from
>>>> Octave-forge I have problems:
>>>>
>>>> octave:6> pkg install spline-gcvspl-1.0.1.tar.gz
>>>> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>>>> See `config.log' for more details.
>>>> error: the configure script returned the following error: checking for
>>>> gcc... gcc
>>>> checking for C compiler default output file name... 
>>>> error: called from `pkg:configure_make' in file
>>>> /usr/share/octave/2.9.13/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 989, column 2
>>> Looks like you are missing the compilers.. What OS/platform are you
>>> running on? Did you install the compilers?
>>>
>>>> I tried a different package:
>>>> octave:5> pkg install informationtheory-0.1.1.tar.gz
>>>> and it work perfectly.
>>>> Can anyone give a hint on how to deal with this? My experience in Linux
>>>> is
>>>> very poor, I'm just a beginner.
>>>> Thanks in advance, folks!
>>> The informationtheory packages is just a collection of m-files and so
>>> doesn't need a compiler. Therefore it installs fine.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Omar
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