Re: Binaries for SLES10

[Andreas Kuntzagk]

Hi,

> We had Quentin Spencer making rpms, but for Fedora, not SuSE. He
> hasn't been seen around here for some time, around a year. 

Fedora and Suse are quite different in many aspects so I guess that wont 
work. But I will try it

> If the
> latest Fedora packages work on SuSE, try that. If not, compiling
> Octave isn't that difficult.

Unfortunately for me it is :-(
Is there a list of prerequisites somewhere?

here's my configure output:

======
Octave is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

  Source directory:     .
  Installation prefix:  /usr/local
  C compiler:           gcc   -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wformat -g -O2
  C++ compiler:         g++  -I/usr/include/freetype2  -Wall -W 
-Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -g -O2
  Fortran compiler:     gfortran -O
  Fortran libraries:     -L/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2 
-L/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64 
-L/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/lib/../lib64 
-L/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/lib 
-L/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../.. -lz -lgfortranbegin 
-lgfortran -lm
  BLAS libraries:       -llapack -lblas
  FFTW libraries:       -lfftw3 -lfftw3f
  GLPK libraries:
  UMFPACK libraries:
  AMD libraries:
  CAMD libraries:
  COLAMD libraries:
  CCOLAMD libraries:
  CHOLMOD libraries:
  CXSPARSE libraries:
  ARPACK libraries:
  QRUPDATE libraries:
  HDF5 libraries:
  CURL libraries:
  REGEX libraries:      -L/usr/lib64 -lpcre
  QHULL libraries:
  OPENGL libraries:     -lftgl -lfreetype -lz -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU
  FLTK backend libs:    -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib64 
-lfltk_gl -lGLU -lGL -lfltk -lm -lXext -lX11 -lsupc++
  X11 include flags:    /usr/X11R6/include
  X11 libraries:        -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -lX11
  CARBON libraries:
  LIBS:                 -lreadline  -lncurses -ldl -lz -lm
  Default pager:        less
  gnuplot:              gnuplot
  Magick config:

  Do internal array bounds checking:  false
  Build static libraries:             false
  Build shared libraries:             true
  Dynamic Linking:                    true (dlopen)
  Include support for GNU readline:   true
  64-bit array dims and indexing:     false

configure: WARNING: UMFPACK not found.  This will result in some lack of 
functionality for sparse matrices.
configure: WARNING: qrupdate not found. The QR & Cholesky updating 
functions will be slow.
configure: WARNING: AMD 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: arpack not found. This will result in a lack of the 
eigs function.
configure: WARNING: GLPK library not found.  The glpk function for 
solving linear programs will be disabled.
configure: WARNING: GraphicsMagick++ config script not found.  Assuming 
GraphicsMagic++ library and header files are missing, so imread will not 
be fully functional
configure: WARNING: Qhull library not found --- This will result in loss 
of functionality of some geometry functions.
configure:

NOTE: libraries may be skipped if a library is not found OR
      if the library on your system is missing required features.
=======


And this is the error on make:

/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: 
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/liblapack.a(classq.i): 
relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when 
making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/liblapack.a: 
could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status