Re: pkg: error running the configure script for communications.

[Navneet Battan]

Strange thing is that i am able to install control and signal packages, but only communications pkg has problem.

Warm Regards,

Navneet

On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 20:08, Navneet Battan <navneetbattan@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Andrew,

Facing same error with 6.1.0 version.

checking for octave/interpreter.h... yes

checking for pkg-config... /Applications/Octave-6.1.0.app/Contents/Resources/usr/bin//pkg-config

checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes

checking for HDF5... no

checking for H5Fopen in -lhdf5... no

configure: error: hdf5 not found

error: pkg: error running the configure script for communications.

error: called from

    configure_make at line 93 column 9

    install at line 196 column 7

    pkg at line 568 column 9

Warm Regards,

Navneet

On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 15:57, Andrew Janke <floss@apjanke.net> wrote:

On 1/14/21 12:58 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
>
>
> On 1/13/21 11:20 AM, Navneet Battan wrote:
>> Thanks Markus for quick response.
>>
>> Warm Regards,
>> Navneet
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 at 19:41, Markus Mützel <markus.muetzel@gmx.de
>> <mailto:markus.muetzel@gmx.de>> wrote:
>>
>>     Am 13. Januar 2021 um 14:11 Uhr schrieb "Navneet Battan":
>>     > Updating complete error. I have tried installing hdf5 using "sudo
>>     port install hdf5", but no luck.
>>     > [...]
>>     > >> pkg install -forge -verbose communications
>>     > [...]
>>     > checking for HDF5... no
>>     > checking for H5Fopen in -lhdf5... no
>>     > configure: error: hdf5 not found
>>
>>     I'm not exactly sure how that homebrew magic works. It might be that
>>     hdf5 has to be part of the app?
>>     Maybe you'll get better help reporting errors with installation on
>>     MacOS here:
>>     https://github.com/octave-app/octave-app/issues?q=is%3Aissue+forge
>>     <https://github.com/octave-app/octave-app/issues?q=is%3Aissue+forge>
>>
>>     It looks like communication 1.2.2 installed successfully for others:
>>     https://github.com/octave-app/octave-app/issues/147#issuecomment-586548525
>>     <https://github.com/octave-app/octave-app/issues/147#issuecomment-586548525>
>
>> t might be that
>>     hdf5 has to be part of the app?
>
> Octave.app ships with hdf5 included; don't know why it's not working.
> Might be a macOS Big Sur problem? That's what Navneet is running, and I
> haven't tested Octave.app there. Looking in to it.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>

Can you try running the new Octave.app 6.1.0 Beta 1 release?

https://github.com/octave-app/octave-app/releases/tag/v6.1.0-beta1

Cheers,
Andrw