Re: Octave 3.0.1 does not build on RHEL WS 4

[Ernest Williams]

On May 2, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Quentin Spencer wrote:

> Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > Quentin Spencer wrote:
> > > Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > > > Johann Cohen-Tanugi wrote:
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> > > > > well, as a matter of fact I dont see -I/usr/include in the  
> > > > > compiler command. Maybe it is related....
> > > > > Could you issue the command by hand adding this to it?
> > > > > Again, no expertise here.....
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> > > > I have already moved on to rerun configure without support for  
> > > > zlib which is optional.
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> > > > I would like to know what is the recommended optional packages.
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> > > > I am not sure what packages to add to my RHEL system.
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> > > > I am not sure that I like the following warnings from the  
> > > > configure:
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> > > > configure: WARNING: I didn't find gperf, but it's only a problem  
> > > > if you need to reconstruct oct-gperf.h
> > > > configure: WARNING: UMFPACK not found.  This will result in some  
> > > > lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
> > > > configure: WARNING: COLAMD not found. This will result in some  
> > > > lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
> > > > configure: WARNING: CCOLAMD not found. This will result in some  
> > > > lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
> > > > configure: WARNING: CHOLMOD not found. This will result in some  
> > > > lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
> > > > configure: WARNING: CXSparse not found. This will result in some  
> > > > lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
> > > > configure: WARNING: FFTW library not found.  Octave will use the  
> > > > (slower) FFTPACK library instead.
> > > > configure: WARNING: GLPK library not found.  The glpk function  
> > > > for solving linear programs will be disabled.
> > > > configure: WARNING: HDF5 library not found.  Octave will not be  
> > > > able to save or load HDF5 data files.
> > > > configure: WARNING: Qhull library not found --- This will result  
> > > > in loss of functionality of some geometry functions.
> > > > configure:
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> > > > NOTE: libraries may be skipped if a library is not found OR
> > > >     if the library on your system is missing required features.
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> > > > ===================================================================
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> > > > Bottomline, what RPMS are needed/recommended to support the above?
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> > > You can install fftw3 from the EPEL repositories. The other  
> > > packages you need are glpk, qhull, hdf5, and suitesparse, which  
> > > are not included in EPEL for RHEL4, but they are in EPEL for RHEL  
> > > 5, so you could try downloading and rebuilding the EPEL 5 SRPMS  
> > > (see http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/SRPMS/). I think  
> > > fftw support is important, but the other packages are for somewhat  
> > > specialized applications, so whether you need them depends on how  
> > > you plan to use octave.
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> > Thanks, this resolved my problem.  Thanks again!!
> >
> > The only features I don't have:
> > -- zlib support (Had to run configure   --without-zlib)
> > -- HDF5
> > -- CXSparse
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> > =====================================================================
> > Could not get the src RPM packages to rebuild:
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> > rpmbuild --rebuild hdf5-1.6.5-7.el5.src.rpm
> > error: Failed build dependencies:
> >       gcc-gfortran is needed by hdf5-1.6.5-7.i386
> >
> > address@hidden octave-support]# rpmbuild --rebuild  
> > suitesparse-3.0.0-1.el5.src.rpm
> > Installing suitesparse-3.0.0-1.el5.src.rpm
> > error: Failed build dependencies:
> >       blas-devel is needed by suitesparse-3.0.0-1.i386
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> > =====================================================================
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> > One day, we will move to RHEL 5 and maybe I will have few problems.
> > For now, we have to use and support  RHEL 4
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> Since I'm the maintainer of suitesparse in Fedora, I have requested  
> a branch and successfully built an RPM for EPEL 4. It will probably  
> show up on the mirrors within a day or two. That should make it  
> easier for those who want to build octave 3.0 on RHEL 4. I'm also  
> the maintainer of glpk, so I may also do the same there. As for  
> building hdf5, I think if you edited the spec file to change the  
> dependency from gcc-gfortran to gcc-g77, it would probably build.

Excellent,  can you change the spec file as well?


Thanks,
Ernest




> Quentin