Re: warnings using configure for Octave 3.4

[Andy Buckle]

On 3 January 2012 02:54, Sachinthaka Abeywardana
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I dont know if I should worry about this but I get the following warning
> after I installed the octave 3.2 dependencies (although most warnings have
> dissapeared). The one with the 64-bit array dims looks a bit worrying
> considering I am using Ubuntu-64:
>
> 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 bison, but it's only a problem if you need
> to reconstruct parse.cc
> configure: WARNING: Fontconfig library 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.

" 64-bit array dims and indexing" is experimental: you do not want it
at the moment.

the package for native graphics is called fltk-devel on openSuSE.

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