Re: octave install

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- On Wed, 2014/4/9, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wednesday, April 09, 2014 03:10 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > --- On Wed, 2014/4/9, address@hidden wrote:
> >
> >> On Wednesday, April 09, 2014 10:56 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> >>> --- On Wed, 2014/4/9, Fausto Arinos de A. Barbuto  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 6:48:17 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> --- On Wed, 2014/4/9, Fausto Arinos de A. Barbuto wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi, Tatsuro.  Thanks for your reply.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Unfortunately, I didn't keep a build log neither did I save the error
> >>>>>> messages that were displayed onto the xterm.  But I will definitely
> >>>>>> save a log and will post it here should I ever decide to try installing
> >>>>>> 3.8 on my computer again.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> For the time being, a question stands: why should gmsh be removed from
> >>>>>> the system upon the installation of Octave 3.8's dependencies?  I fail
> >>>>>> to understand why.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have not used gmsh. If I can find time, I will try to install gmsh 
> >>>>> and build octave-3.8.1 and see what will happen.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> You may have other stuff uninstalled.  Watch out.
> >>>>
> >>>> Fausto
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I installed the gmsh using the synaptic packge manager and built 
> >>> octave-3.8.1.
> >>> I could build it without any errors.
> >>>
> >>> make check results:
> >>>
> >>> Summary:
> >>>
> >>>      PASS     11537
> >>>      FAIL         0
> >>>      XFAIL        7
> >>>      SKIPPED      2
> >>>
> >>> I noticed that a few octave depency libraries (e.g hd5) were replaced in 
> >>> installing the gmsh.
> >>
> >> Is your self-compiled octave built against libhdf5-openmpi or
> >> libhdf5-serial? They conflict with one another. The former was pulled in
> >> by gmsh, along the chain of dependencies.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> ST
> >> --
> >
> >> Is your self-compiled octave built against libhdf5-openmpi or
> >> libhdf5-serial?
> >
> > libhdf5-openmpi
> >
> > The synaptic package manager uninstalled libhdf5-serial and installed 
> > libhdf5-openmpi at installing gmsh.
> 
> The reason I ask is, for me (ubuntu 12.10 quantal, hdf5 1.8.8-9 and 
> libraries pulled in by apt-get), "configure" does *not* pick up hdf5.h 
> from libhdf5-openmpi-dev. (It does pick up hdf5.h from libhdf5-dev which 
> is from the serial version.)
> 
> My octave_config_info shows
>          HDF5 = 0
>          HDF5_18 = 0
>          HDF5_H = 0
> 
> Can you check that for me in your built? Or you have specified 
> something in the configure options to pick it up?
> 
> Regards,
> ST

Sorry my build was lack of libhdf5*-dev so that hdf5 was disabled.  I will 
check libhdf5openmpi-dev and check the configure behavior.

Regards

Tatsuro
Sorry my build was lack of lighdf