and here one more successful compile with dependencies etc. This time on a PC with ubuntu 9.04 which had never seen octave before.
Took only a few days to sort everything out and get make to complete without error :-/
octave executable seems to work.
# --- # # ubuntu 9.04 # installed versions of gcc and gfortan : gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) # (FYI: on ubuntu 9.10 the installed versions are: 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu9)
# this is run on ubuntu 9.04
# 1) The usual: D/L octave (tar.gz), unpack, cd octave-x.x.x
# 2) preliminaries # the following dependencies were taken from the messages of './configure'
sudo apt-get -y install g++ flex bison gperf sudo apt-get -y install gfortran sudo apt-get -y install texinfo sudo apt-get -y install libx11-dev # octave will give warnings but no error and then will _not_ compile if missing libx11-dev
sudo apt-get -y install libreadline5 libreadline5-dev sudo apt-get -y install libglpk-dev sudo apt-get -y install gnuplot sudo apt-get -y install libfltk1.1-dev sudo apt-get -y install libgraphicsmagick1-dev
sudo apt-get -y install libfftw3-dev sudo apt-get -y install libpcre3-dev sudo apt-get -y install libarpack2-dev
# explicitely remove the following dependencies, may cause make-error :-( # not clear exactly which ones are responsible
sudo apt-get -y remove --purge libarpack2-dev libfltk1.1-dev libpcre3-dev libgraphicsmagick1-dev
# --- and try to build ... --- # ./configure # without this 'make distclean' doesnt work the first time
make distclean ./configure # kind of redundant, but needs to be done :-( make # and be veeery patient :-) make check make install octave # final test