[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #39823] build failure on systems with older freetype library

[Michael Godfrey]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #39823 (project octave):

It takes considerable work to get the current Octave
devel to "work" under RHEL5.  Quite a few of the required
packages are too old and have to be replaced by downloading
and compiling newer versions.  In many commercial environments
this is discouraged or made impossible,

On the other hand, there are a large number of sites which
are stuck on RHEL5 due to the difficulty of migration to 6.
This is why RedHat has extended the life of RHEL5 and has
released new patches (mainly security).

A possibly useful path for these sites would be for someone to
put together an RPM which would install without the need
for any dependencies outside the RedHat-available RPM's.

Octave is just one of many packages to which which RHEL5 users
lack access, so this is not a time-critical issue. 

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