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Re: Help on Compilation of Octave


From: Alfredo Tomasini
Subject: Re: Help on Compilation of Octave
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 13:28:37 -0700

"Arthur W. Green" wrote:

> Hello all,
> I apologize for my question, which is no doubt riddled with ignorance, and
> hope that someone wouldn't mind taking some of their precious time to aid me
> with my problem.
>
> Essentially, I don't normally use Unix for my work, but recently I was asked
> to compile Octave on a colleague's machine. While, I am moderately familiar
> with simple Unix functions and can set up and configure most aspects of the
> machine, I am not much of a programmer and am not entirely familiar with the
> Make utility.
>
> I received the quoted text below upon the initial 'make all' that should be
> go about compiling the program:
>
> > make -f octMakefile all
> > "./Makeconf", line 70: Missing dependency operator
> > "./Makeconf", line 72: Need an operator
> > "./Makeconf", line 74: Need an operator
> > "./Makeconf", line 75: Missing dependency operator
> > "./Makeconf", line 78: Need an operator
> > "./Makeconf", line 83: Need an operator
> > "./Makeconf", line 305: Need an operator
> > "./Makeconf", line 306: Need an operator
> > "./Makeconf", line 307: Need an operator
> > "./Makeconf", line 309: Need an operator
> > Error expanding embedded variable.
> > *** Error code 2
> >
> > Stop.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you for your time and patience.
>
> -- Art
>
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If you had to install octave on a UNIX machine, why not to use "configure" ?
Configure is part of the OCTAVE installation, when you untar the package cd
into
the octave directory and use configure.
I suggest to use the option --desable-nls, in some old UNIX system is causing
problem with
the National Language Support (that was my case).
If it does not work probably you should ask for some help to the sysadmin (if
you had one).

Alfredo



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