Building octave development from sources problem

[Dach Miroslaw]

Dear All,

I have tried to build octave redevelopment from sources on my Linux PC 
(Scientific Linux distribution 5)

When I have tried autogen.sh I have got following errors:

[-bash SLSBASE=]# ./autogen.sh
calling autoconf and autoheader...
/root/mercurial-1.0.1/octave
configure.in:1327: /usr/bin/m4: builtin `mkstemp' requested by  
frozen file is not supported
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
configure.in:1327: /usr/bin/m4: builtin `mkstemp' requested by  
frozen file is not supported
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
autoheader: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
/root/mercurial-1.0.1/octave/scripts
skipping autoheader in ./scripts

My system is as following:

Linux pc4241 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 5 10:12:42 EST 2008  
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I will be grateful for any hint how to compile development version of octave
in order to use John Swensen idea described in the post: 
http://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2008-May/007413.html

Best Regards

Miroslaw Dach

-----Original Message-----
From: John Swensen [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Mon 5/26/2008 9:47 PM
To: Dach Miroslaw
Subject: Re: octave_server
 
Probably a bad version of the autotools.  Lots of times a Linux  
distribution will have 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 and maybe others all installed at  
the same time.  I'm not sure which Octave needs, but I'm pretty sure  
that is your problem.

John


On May 26, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Dach Miroslaw wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> I have tried previously the autogen.sh but it has failed so I  
> thought that configure from octave version 3.0.1 is ok.
>
> When I have tried autogen.sh I have got following errors:
>
> [-bash SLSBASE=]# ./autogen.sh
> calling autoconf and autoheader...
> /root/mercurial-1.0.1/octave
> configure.in:1327: /usr/bin/m4: builtin `mkstemp' requested by  
> frozen file is not supported
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> configure.in:1327: /usr/bin/m4: builtin `mkstemp' requested by  
> frozen file is not supported
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> autoheader: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> /root/mercurial-1.0.1/octave/scripts
> skipping autoheader in ./scripts
> done
>
> My system is as following:
>
> Linux pc4241 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 5 10:12:42 EST 2008  
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Many thanks for your help
>
> Best Regards
>
> Miroslaw Dach
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Swensen [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Mon 5/26/2008 7:58 PM
> To: Dach Miroslaw
> Subject: Re: octave_server
>
> First of all, don't copy over the configure script.  Use the
> autogen.sh script to generate a new one.  Let me know if this solves
> your problem.
>
> John
>
> On May 26, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Dach Miroslaw wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I take the liberty to bother you with your concept.
>>
>> I have downloaded the latest version of octave:
>>
>>> ./hg clone http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
>>
>>> cd octave
>>
>> I have noticed that configure script is missing so I have copied
>> across one from octave 3.0.1 which I have built previously.
>>
>>> cp /root/octave-3.0.1/config.h.in .
>>> cp /root/octave-3.0.1/configure .
>>> ./configure --enable-static --enable-shared F77=gfortran
>>> make
>> :
>> :
>> gfortran -c -fPIC -O -mieee-fp xerror.f -o pic/xerror.o
>> warning: run make in parent directory to update libraries
>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/mercurial-1.0.1/octave/libcruft/
>> quadpack'
>> make -C qrupdate all
>> make[3]: Entering directory `/root/mercurial-1.0.1/octave/libcruft/
>> qrupdate'
>> make[3]: *** No rule to make target `all'.  Stop.
>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/mercurial-1.0.1/octave/libcruft/
>> qrupdate'
>> make[2]: *** [qrupdate] Error 2
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/mercurial-1.0.1/octave/libcruft'
>> make[1]: *** [libcruft] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/mercurial-1.0.1/octave'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> Unfortunately the compilation failed:
>>
>> Could you give me please some advice how to compile the octave
>> development version.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Miroslaw Dach
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Swensen [mailto:address@hidden
>> Sent: Mon 5/26/2008 2:51 PM
>> To: Dach Miroslaw
>> Subject: Re: octave_server
>>
>> About 3 days ago, I posted an entire C++ class and test file on the
>> mailing list.  I have attached the same TGZ file with this email.  I
>> have tested this a little bit and know it works, albeit with less
>> error checking and functionality than it could if I spent more time  
>> on
>> it.
>>
>> As for compiling your own version of Octave, look at the "Development
>> Source" section of http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html
>> The easiest way to compile Octave yourself depends on your platform.
>> Are you on Windows, Linux, or OSX (or something else altogether)?   
>> For
>> OSX, the easiest way is to download the .APP file from
>> octave.sourceforge.net.  It already has the updated version.  For
>> Linux, the easiest way to make sure you get all the functionality
>> compiled into Octave is to install octave from whatever package
>> manager you use.  This will ensure that all the optimized libraries
>> like FFTW, blas, lapack, atlas, etc are available.  Then you should  
>> be
>> able to do the standard autogen/configure/make process to build
>> Octave.  On Windows, I don't know what the best method would be.  You
>> could install the windows version, then go look at the symtab.h in  
>> the
>> C:\Program Files\Octave\include directory and see if it has the
>> symbol_table class.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>
>