Re: Error installing octave 3.2.4

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Apr-2010, Stefan Neumann wrote:

| # 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

Given that there are already packages for Octave 3.2 on Debian (and I
guess Ubuntu) systems, it might be easier to get the required
dependencies by using

  apt-get build-dep octave3.2

| # --- 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 :-(

Well, with "make distclean", you just wiped out all the files that are
not part of the Octave distribution and that were just generated by
the configure script...

I'm curious, where did you get the idea that you should start with
"make distclean"?

jwe