Re: Compiling octave-workshop

[Sebastien Loisel]

Hello,

Quentin stumbled onto a problem, which is actually the symptom of a deeper problem. I don't know how to get compile and link options out of mkoctfile (and I haven't found an octave-config script.) How do I find link and compile options to create Octave binaries? If there is no way, looking forward, can we get an octave-config like many other packages?

In the mean time, what's a good way of pulling the compile and link options out of (say) mkoctfile?

Quentin, as a workaround, can you add these libraries to your LDFLAGS environment variable?

Cheers,

Sébastien Loisel

On 3/1/06, Quentin Spencer <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Sebastien,

I got a local installation of qt4 working and am trying to build
octave-workshop, but I've hit my first snag:

checking for liboctave compile options... ok
checking whether we can build a liboctave program... configure: error:
Cannot link against liboctave

The problem appears to be missing linker flags. You probably didn't run
into this because your copy of octave was not compiled with support for
the ufsparse libraries. I was able to get the test to pass by adding
"-lcholmod -lcolamd -lccolamd -lmetis" to the compile command. These are
optional libraries that are required for sparse matrix support in 2.9.4
and later releases.

-Quentin