Fwd: waitbar ?

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

The correct list is "Octave users list" <address@hidden>,
(not address@hidden)

Sorry about that.

Dmitri.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dmitri A. Sergatskov <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: waitbar ?
To: LinuxOctave <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden


On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:06 PM, LinuxOctave <address@hidden> wrote:
> "You need to update for the latest octave version. waitbar was only
> added on 3.6.0 so previous versions won't have this function. "
>
> I tried to update to 3.6.  Running ./configure I got several errors:
>
> First I had to add "deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-updates
> main universe" and then install g77

You really need gfortran.

> Then I installed missing libpcre3 libpcre3-dev
>
> Now I'm stuck on "configure: error: You are required to have BLAS and LAPACK
> libraries".
>

You either do not have development headers (*.h files) installed, or
g77 is not compatible
with the run-time libraries.

> I've looked through the forum and can't seem to get any further on this.
>

The last, but not least -- octave-maintainers is the wrong list to post
questions like this. You want octave-help. Redirecting accordingly.

Dmitri.
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