Re: Help installing octave 3.2.4 from source?

[Ben Abbott]

I'd guess no one here is building 3.2.4 on Red Hat anymore.

You might try the developers sources ...

        http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html

... or you could look at how your package manager builds from source.

Ben

On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Pengcheng Wu wrote:

> Nobody has anything?
> 
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Pengcheng Wu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Forgive me if this is a repost. I searched but ...
> 
> Trying to build octave 3.2.4 but it fails at configure:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=SOME_DIR --without-amd --enable-shared --disable-static
> 
> The console complains: 
> 
> checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes
> checking whether gfortran accepts -g... yes
> checking how to get verbose linking output from gfortran... -v
> checking for Fortran 77 libraries of gfortran...  -L/usr/lib64 
> -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/home/../bin/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.2 
> -L/home/somdir/bin/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.2/../../../../lib64 
> -L/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/lib/../lib64 
> -L/home/somedir/bin/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.5.2/../../.. -lz 
> -lgfortran -lm -lfreetype -lGL -lGLU
> checking for dummy main to link with Fortran 77 libraries... unknown
> configure: error: in `./octave-3.2.4':
> configure: error: linking to Fortran libraries from C fails
> 
> However, the config.log says differently, which I will just list errors:
> ...
> conftest.c:10:28: fatal error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
> compilation terminated.
> ...
> conftest.c:53:26: fatal error: minix/config.h: No such file or directory
> ...
> g++: Carbon: No such file or directory
> cc1plus: error: unrecognized command line option "-framework"
> ...
> conftest.c:66:27: fatal error: qhull/qhull_a.h: No such file or directory
> ...
> conftest.c:34:18: fatal error: pcre.h: No such file or directory
> ...
> conftest.c:70:19: fatal error: fftw3.h: No such file or directory
> ...
> 
> The machine runs Redhat linux 2.6.9_5-9-0-0, gcc version is 4.5.2.
> 
> Thanks for any help in advance!
> -Pengcheng
> 
> 
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