Re: Question about building under Linux

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Apr-2008, James P. Howard, II wrote:

| I'm using RedHat, but I specifically wish to avoid using RPM to
| install.

Why?

| Which leads back to my original question.  How does Octave
| know where the libraries are installed?

The configure script relies on the compiler and linker to determine
what header files and libraries are available.  So either install the
libraries and header files where the compiler  will find them by
default, or use the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables to specify
non-standard locations.  This is the same as for all pretry much all
autoconf-generated configure scripts:

  configure CPPFLAGS=-I/my/precious/headers LDFLAGS-L/my/precious/libs ...

jwe