Re: does installing qhull help with satisfying delaunayn

[c.]

On 10 Nov 2010, at 08:36, Isak Delberth Davids wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have octave-3.0.2 (along with octave-forge) on a fairly old Mandriva 2008 
> install. When I use the function 'griddata', I get:
> 
> error: __delaunayn__: not available in this version of Octave
> 
> I read somewhere, 
> http://www.qhull.org/
> that Matlab uses qhull for delaunayn. With this in mind I installed qhull 
> which was available from the Mandriva repo. This seemed not to help.

did you re-compile octave after installing qhull?

> Does octave have a workaround for this, or is a brute force update to 3.2.4 
> the only way around it.

well, you need to reconfigure and recompile Octave anyway in order for it to 
detect the newly installed libraries 
so I'd say it's worth taking the opportunity to do an update as 3.0 is really 
very old

> Cheers,
> IDD
c.