Re: octave installation problem - linux/limits.h

[Vincent Letocart]

On 09 June 2010, at 11:20:50 (Epoch+1276078850 sec), John W. Eaton wrote : 
> On  9-Jun-2010, Vincent Letocart wrote:
> 
> | On 06 June 2010, at 05:35:04 (Epoch+1275798904 sec), bijoy wrote : 
> | > Hi
> | > 
> | > I need help in installing octave,
> | > 
> | > I have downloaded octave-3.2.4.tar.bz2, and unzipped to a folder 
> octave-3.2.4.
> | > 
> | > when I run ./confconfigure:
> | > 
> | > 
> | > configure: error: in `/home/bijoy/work/software_bkps/octave-3.2.4':
> | > configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
> | > See `config.log' for more details.
> | > 
> | > I have attached the config.log 
> | > 
> | > Could anyone help me to resolve this issue please ?
> | > 
> | > Thanks and regards
> | > Bijoy
> | 
> | On suse, the linux/limits.h file comes with kernel headers.
> | 
> | Can you install the 'linux-kernel-headers' package corresponding
> | to your kernel version (2.6.27), then check if /usr/include/linux/limits.h
> | is effectively present on your system ?
> 
> I would be really surprised if it is necessary to have the kernel
> headers package installed to build Octave.
> 
> jwe

  $ rpm -qf /usr/include/linux/limits.h 
  linux-kernel-headers-2.6.27-2.22
  $

So ?



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