Re: Configure problems with octave4.2.1 on redhat7

[Markus Mützel]

Am 24. November 2020 um 08:15 Uhr schrieb "Grunow, Ingo (EXTERN: ARkentec)":
> Dear octave-support-team,
> 
> I have a curve fitting task of hyperelastic material laws to describe the 
> mechanical behavior of rubber. I have an octave script that uses fmincon, 
> fminsearch or fminunc. It works well with a portable octave version on my 
> notebook at home. But I need it for business.
> 
> On my workstation I have a redhat7-OS (3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64) and an 
> octave4.2.1 distribution (s. CL output below). It was already installed and I 
> have no admin rights. Octave works with basic commands well. But there are no 
> packages available. When I tried to install packages like io, struct or optim 
> I always got the ERROR message shown the last 20 lines of octave output 
> below. I read in the manual for configuration run the shell script configure. 
> But I can’t find the shell script.
> 
> So my questions are:
> 1.       Is the configure shell script the solution of my problem?
> 2.       Where can I find it?
> 3.       Can I run the required script without sodu-commands?
> 
> Please help me to solve the problem.
 
> % 
> ==============================================================================
> % ERROR message
> % 
> ==============================================================================
> …
> make: *** [csvconcat.oct] Error 1
> make: *** [csvexplode.oct] Error 1
> make: Entering directory `/tmp/oct-YioybP/io-2.6.3/src'
> /appl/opensoft/octave/4.2.1/redhatel7/octave/4.2.1/bin/mkoctfile-4.2.1 
> csvexplode.cc
> /appl/opensoft/octave/4.2.1/redhatel7/octave/4.2.1/bin/mkoctfile-4.2.1 
> csv2cell.cc
> /appl/opensoft/octave/4.2.1/redhatel7/octave/4.2.1/bin/mkoctfile-4.2.1 
> csvconcat.cc
> /appl/opensoft/octave/4.2.1/redhatel7/octave/4.2.1/bin/mkoctfile-4.2.1 
> cell2csv.cc
> /appl/opensoft/octave/4.2.1/redhatel7/octave/4.2.1/bin/mkoctfile-4.2.1 
> col2num.cc
> /appl/opensoft/octave/4.2.1/redhatel7/octave/4.2.1/bin/mkoctfile-4.2.1 
> num2col.cc
> make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-YioybP/io-2.6.3/src'
>  
> pkg: error running `make' for the io package.
> error: called from
>     configure_make at line 95 column 9
>     install at line 192 column 7
>     pkg at line 394 column 9
> 
> Best regards,
> Ingo
 
Please, show the command you executed with its complete output.

Markus