Re: octave install

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- On Tue, 2014/4/8, Fausto Arinos Barbuto wrote:

> On 04/04/2014 07:00 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > --- On Sat, 2014/4/5, johnrobinson  wrote:
> >
> >
> > What is the distribution of your Linux? For example, Debian or Ubuntu or 
> > Redhat or .....
> > I have built Octave 3.8.1 on Ubuntu according the instruction on the web 
> > site:
> >
> > http://blogs.bu.edu/mhirsch/2013/12/compiling-octave-3-8/
> >
> 
> The problem about the instructions in the blog above is that they uninstall
> gmsh and several other pieces of software I (for one) need.  If that is the
> cost of installing Octave 3.8 on my Ubuntu 12.04 system, well, I would sooner
> stick by 3.2.4.
> 
> Fausto
> 
> 
> PS: I tried the instructions above nevertheless and got several build errors
> *plus* the removal of gmsh.
> 

What kind of error messages did you encounter?  Revealing them might help to 
solve your problem.

Regards

Tatsuro