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Re: Problem building octave 3.8.1: pcre installed but can't be found


From: Mike Miller
Subject: Re: Problem building octave 3.8.1: pcre installed but can't be found
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 21:59:39 -0400

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:40:49 -0400, Dave Cottingham wrote:
> I am having trouble installing octave 3.8.1 under Red Hat EL6.5. The trouble
> is, configure can't find pcre. pcre is installed, and pcre-config is on the
> path. I can run it by hand, and it seems to do the right things. But when I
> run ./configure, it winds up with:
>
> checking pcre.h usability... no
> checking pcre.h presence... no
> checking for pcre.h... no
> checking pcre/pcre.h usability... no
> checking pcre/pcre.h presence... no
> checking for pcre/pcre.h... no
> checking whether pcre.h defines the macros we need... no
> configure: error: to build Octave, you must have the PCRE library and header
> files installed
>
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Is pcre-devel installed? Is pcre.h in /usr/include? If not, try
passing CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to configure to the non-standard path you
have installed PCRE in.

HTH,

-- 
mike



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