Re: Second attampt at new octave-forge web site

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Oct-2006, Joe Koski wrote:

| on 10/17/06 4:28 PM, John W. Eaton at address@hidden wrote:
| 
| > Should we start making a list of external dependencies that need to be
| > installed to have a fully functional version of Octave?
| > 
| >   makeinfo
| >   less (or more)
| >   ls
| >   sh (or some Bourne-like shell)
| >   tar
| >   gunzip
| >   gnuplot
| > 
| > others?  
| > 
| > jwe
| 
| 
| John,
| 
| On the Mac, I have to install Readline-5.1 and temporarily rename Apple's
| phony readline. You also need a Fortran compiler and the sparse matrix
| libraries.

I was thinking of run-time dependencies.  But we should probably also
have a list of build dependencies that is easier to read than
configure.in...

jwe