Re: Octave-forge build

[David Bateman]

Jason Russler wrote:

> Hello all,
> I have a user that requires a build of octave 2.9.4 with
> Octave-forge.  Attempts to build octave-forge-2006.03.17 with
> octave-2.9.4 results in the configure failing when it can't find two
> header files:
>
> $ ./configure
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking for mkoctfile... mkoctfile
> conftest.cc:2:28: octave/version.h: No such file or directory
> conftest.cc:3:29: octave/defaults.h: No such file or directory
> conftest.cc:27: syntax error before string constant
> conftest.cc:28: syntax error before string constant
> conftest.cc:29: syntax error before string constant
> conftest.cc:30: syntax error before string constant
> conftest.cc:31: syntax error before string constant
> configure: error: Could not run mkoctfile
>
> These header files are present in an install of Octave 2.1.x, for
> which this octave-forge CVS is apparently targeted, but not 2.9.4. 
> However the requesting user indicated to me that this octave-forge
> release should build for the most recent development version of
> Octave.   What do I need to do to make that work?  (I'm not a user of
> Octave or Matlab but an administrator of systems.)
> Thanks for any help I can get,
> Jason
>
Perhaps octave is not on your path? What does "which octave" and "which
mkoctfile" return...

D.

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