Re: warnings using configure for Octave 3.4

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 2, 2012, at 8:18 PM, Sachinthaka Abeywardana wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 2, 2012, at 8:12 PM, Sachinthaka Abeywardana wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I tried to download and compile from source Octave 3.4 and I get the 
>> > following warnings. Any idea how to fix these: (I am running 64-bit Ubuntu 
>> > 11.10)
>> >
>> >   Do internal array bounds checking:  false
>> >   Build static libraries:             false
>> >   Build shared libraries:             true
>> >   Dynamic Linking:                    true (dlopen)
>> >   Include support for GNU readline:   true
>> >   64-bit array dims and indexing:     false
>> >
>> > configure: WARNING: I didn't find gperf, but it's only a problem if you 
>> > need to reconstruct oct-gperf.h
>> > configure: WARNING: I didn't find flex, but it's only a problem if you 
>> > need to reconstruct lex.cc
>> > configure: WARNING: I didn't find bison, but it's only a problem if you 
>> > need to reconstruct parse.cc
>> > configure: WARNING: UMFPACK not found.  This will result in some lack of 
>> > functionality for sparse matrices.
>> > configure: WARNING: qrupdate not found.  The QR & Cholesky updating 
>> > functions will be slow.
>> > configure: WARNING: AMD library not found.  This will result in some lack 
>> > of functionality for sparse matrices.
>> > configure: WARNING: COLAMD library not found.  This will result in some 
>> > lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
>> > configure: WARNING: CCOLAMD library not found.  This will result in some 
>> > lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
>> > configure: WARNING: CHOLMOD library not found.  This will result in some 
>> > lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
>> > configure: WARNING: CXSparse library not found.  This will result in some 
>> > lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
>> > configure: WARNING: cURL library not found.  The ftp objects, urlread and 
>> > urlwrite functions will be disabled.
>> > configure: WARNING: GLPK library not found.  The glpk function for solving 
>> > linear programs will be disabled.
>> > configure: WARNING: GraphicsMagick++ library not found.  The imread 
>> > function for reading image files will not be fully functional.
>> > configure: WARNING: HDF5 library not found.  Octave will not be able to 
>> > save or load HDF5 data files.
>> > configure: WARNING: Qhull library not found -- this will result in loss of 
>> > functionality of some geometry functions.
>> > configure: WARNING: OpenGL libs (GL and GLU) not found. Native graphics 
>> > will be disabled.
>> > configure: WARNING:
>> > configure: WARNING: I didn't find the necessary libraries to compile native
>> > configure: WARNING: graphics.  It isn't necessary to have native graphics,
>> > configure: WARNING: but you will need to have gnuplot installed or you 
>> > won't
>> > configure: WARNING: be able to use any of Octave's plotting commands
>> > configure: WARNING:
>> > configure:
>> > configure: NOTE: libraries may be skipped if a library is not found OR
>> > configure: NOTE: if the library on your system is missing required 
>> > features.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Sachin
>> 
>> Looks like you're missing some dependencies. If I recall the command 
>> correctly, you can install all the necessary dependencies by ...
>> 
>>        sudo apt-get build-dep octave
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> I tried that except then I get the error:
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to find a source package for octave
> 
> Thanks,
> Sachin

My mistake. Use "octave3.4" instead. If Ubuntu doesn't yet have octave3.4, try 
octave3.2.

        sudo apt-get build-dep octave3.2

In any event, you can list the available packages by 

        apt-cache pkgnames

Ben