Re: installing octave and pcre no root

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Dan Betea wrote:
> I am trying to install octave 3.6.4 on my office PC (Scientific Linux 6.4
> based on red hat) but I can only do it in my own account since I don't have
> root access.
>
> When trying I get the following error:
>
> configure: error: to build Octave, you must have the PCRE library and header
> files installed
>
> This happens in a directory called /some_stuff/user_name/Programs.
>
> I have installed pcre 8.32 (and checked the installation by running RunTest)
> in the directory /some_stuff/user_name/bin/pcre-8.32 and then tried the
> command
>
> ./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/some_stuff/user_name/bin/pcre-8.32/include"
> LDFLAGS="-L/some_stuff/user_name/bin/pcre-8.32/lib"
>
> That didn't get rid of the error. It is still there. Anything else I could
> try?

Can you try adding the path to pcre-config to your PATH environment
variable before calling configure? Assuming I'm interpreting correctly
what you did, something like:

  PATH=/some_stuff/user_name/bin/pcre-8.32/bin:$PATH
  ./configure ...

HTH,

-- 
mike