Re: trouble installing octave (version 3.4.2) on ubuntu linux 11.04

[Dario Cardini]

John,
thanks to your suggestion configure command runs without errors.
I do have an error while running make:

/bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=F77   --mode=compile f77  -O -mieee-fp -c -o arpack/src/libcruft_la-cgetv0.lo `test -f 'arpack/src/cgetv0.f' || echo './'`arpack/src/cgetv0.f
libtool: compile:  f77 -O -mieee-fp -c arpack/src/cgetv0.f  -fPIC -o arpack/src/.libs/libcruft_la-cgetv0.o
   cgetv0:
Cannot open file debug.h
/usr/bin/f77: aborting compilation
make[2]: *** [arpack/src/libcruft_la-cgetv0.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tools/octave/octave-3.4.2/libcruft'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tools/octave/octave-3.4.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2

For sake of completeness I send attached the log of configure and of make.

Thank you again,
Kind Regards

Dario

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:59 AM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:

On  9-Sep-2011, Dario Cardini wrote:

| Hi,
| I would like to install the most recent version of octave in linux ubuntu (with
| the distribution comes an older version).
| I downloaded the octave-3.4.2.tar.gz file, and I run the following command:
|
| ./configure --prefix=/tools/octave/local_3.4.2
|
| from octave-3.4.2 directory.
|
| I got the following error:
|
| checking qhull/qhull_a.h usability... no
| checking qhull/qhull_a.h presence... no
| checking for qhull/qhull_a.h... no
| configure: WARNING: Qhull library not found -- this will result in loss of
| functionality of some geometry functions.
| checking whether pcre.h defines the macros we need... no
| configure: error: to build Octave, you must have the PCRE library and header
| files installed
|
| Nevertheless the PCRE library is installed. I can see it via synaptic.
|
| For sake of completeness I send attached the complete log of configure command.

Do you have the -dev package installed?  Try

 apt-get build-dep octave3.2

 apt-get install libpcre3-dev

and then run configure again.

jwe

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