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Re: Question about building under Linux
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James P. Howard, II |
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Re: Question about building under Linux |
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Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:35:49 -0400 |
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:01 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> Why?
To make a many-year story short, RPM has some significant problems,
and it is too painful to maintain certain applications (MATLAB,
Mathematica, for instance). As a result, I'd rather manage Octave
directly, than maintain some mixture of RPM and non-RPM managed
systems (across some 300 nodes).
> The configure script relies on the compiler and linker to determine
> what header files and libraries are available. So either install the
> libraries and header files where the compiler will find them by
> default, or use the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables to specify
> non-standard locations. This is the same as for all pretry much all
> autoconf-generated configure scripts:
>
> configure CPPFLAGS=-I/my/precious/headers LDFLAGS-L/my/precious/libs ...
That did the trick, thank you.
James
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Re: Question about building under Linux, E. Joshua Rigler, 2008/04/29