Re: binary RPMs of Octave stable for enterprise Linux systems

[Michael D Godfrey]

On 07/29/2012 04:53 PM, Thomas Yengst wrote:

I have built Octave 3.6.2 RPMs for CentOS-5 and Scientific Linux 6 and am happy to build for other flavors of Linux if there is interest and a place to store them.

I have been building current versions for Fedora RHEL 5 systems because
there are people who depend on me to do it.  The last system I built there
is 3.6.2.  I could summarize what was needed to get that working.  But, also,
I suspect that I will need to do it again for the next release.  LLVM  may, for
example, be a problem.  There is no llvm at all in the RHEL 5 repositories.

I know that RHEL 5 is ancient history, but there are quite a few sites that are
essentially locked into it.  Some, but not necessarily all, of their software
suppliers support newer RHEL systems, and RedHat says that the only "safe"
way to move from 5 to newer versions is to do fresh installs.  Upgrading is not
an option.  This is close to impossible at sites where there are many RHEL 5
systems.  The idea of doing them all at once with some fallback in case it goes
wrong is practically impossible since it also means switching versions of all the
tools that are in use.  It does not appear that the RedHat folks have thought this
through.  Therefore, there will be sites sitting at RHEL 5 at most for the foreseeable
future.

Tell me if I can help.

mdg