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Re: Testing sqrtm


From: Carnë Draug
Subject: Re: Testing sqrtm
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 12:29:34 +0000

On 20 March 2016 at 07:19, Mudit Sharma <address@hidden> wrote:
> I get it now. One cannot use the standalone option
> in this case.So,I followed the steps given here:
> http://www.schoeps.org/home/2015/06/five-simple-instructions-to-compile-octave-4-on-ubuntu/
> and the error I am getting now is :
> configure: error: to build Octave, you must have the PCRE library and header
> files installed
>
> Even after installing PCRE with : sudo apt-get install pcregrep I'm still
> getting the same errors
> Can you give a way to tackle this ? To which header files does this error
> correspond to ?
>

There is an entire page on the wiki with instructions for Debian based
systems (including Ubuntu) [1].  You are installing the wrong package.
You need libpcre3-dev.

Carnë

[1] http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Debian_systems



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