Re: Question about building under Linux

[James P. Howard, II]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:30 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 29-Apr-2008, James P. Howard, II wrote:
>
>  | Beautiful List Members,
>
>  ?

Well, a little bit of fun never hurt.

>  | 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?

I'm using RedHat, but I specifically wish to avoid using RPM to
install.  Which leads back to my original question.  How does Octave
know where the libraries are installed?

James

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