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Re: installing miscellaneous package


From: Carnë Draug
Subject: Re: installing miscellaneous package
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:51:38 +0000

On 14 March 2012 14:57, Farhad <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm fairly new to things so please be patient with me.
>
> I just downloaded the source code for octave 3.6.1 and built it (ubuntu
> 11.10 32-bit). all went smooth. but now when I try to install the package
> miscellaneous 1.0.11, it complains about octave/config.h . and I couldn't
> locate that octave/config.h on my machine either! has it been dropped in
> newer release of octave?
>
> this is the error:
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++
> warning: creating installation directory /usr/local/share/octave/packages
> conftest.cc:1:27: fatal error: octave/config.h: No such file or directory
> compilation terminated.
> configure: error: Could not run /usr/local/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.1
> the configure script returned the following error: checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking for mkoctfile... /usr/local/bin/mkoctfile-3.6.1
> error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file
> /usr/local/share/octave/3.6.1/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1373, column 9
> error: called from:
> error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.6.1/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 827, column 5
> error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.6.1/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 383, column 9
> +++++++++++++++++
>
> any help will be appreciated,
>
> Farhad

Just for the record, after talking with this user on #octave, the
problem is not on the miscellaneous package and some other packages
fail installation as well with the same issue. There was simple no
include/octave-3.6.1/octave/config.h file.

Carnë


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