Question about building under Linux

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Apr-2008, James P. Howard, II wrote:

| Beautiful List Members,

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| I am trying to build Octave 3.0.1 under Linux.  During configure, it
| notes that UMFPACK, and others, are unavailable, and I need these
| features.  I have downloaded and successfully built SuiteSparse.
| However, I cannot determine how to tell configure where these
| libraries are installed and obvious solutions don't seem to work.
| What is the method?

On my system, the method is

  apt-get update
  apt-get build-dep octave3.0

What GNU/Linux distribution are you using?

jwe