Re: Trouble building octave all the way ... help?

[Daniel J Sebald]

Things to try:

1) Build with one of these configure options:

  --without-OSMesa        don't use OSMesa library

[Drawback: plotting may not work for qt or fltk if no replacement for 
OSMesa is available]

  --without-opengl        don't use OpenGL libraries, disable OpenGL 
graphics

[Drawback: it might be that neither qt or fltk plotting will be built in 
which case gnuplot will be used]

  --disable-docs          don't build documentation files

[Drawback: although the build will complete and you might consequently 
get a full installation, that installation won't include the help docs 
of "help plot", etc.]

2) There may also be a way to specify using the gnuplot toolkit to build 
documentation and still have qt and fltk toolkits.

3) Instead of trying to run a system-wide install, try running from the 
build environment.  Sometimes that works because all of the items reside 
in that build environment prior to the "make install".  I.e., just do 
"make", not "make install".

To run from the environment, try something like

/home/youraccount/octave/octave/build/run-octave --no-gui

Dan


On 07/04/2016 05:42 PM, Eric Addison wrote:
> Hello maintainers,
>
> I am working on some missing image functionality, but I'm having trouble
> getting octave to build completely. It builds enough to run and for me
> to start editing core code, but I can't build the image package because
> of an issue with mkoctfile:
>
> error: mkoctfile: unable to find the mkoctfile command, Octave
> installation is incomplete
>
> Whenever I make octave, I get an error with the following message:
>
>    GEN      doc/interpreter/voronoi.eps
> error: __osmesa_print__: Depth and stencil doesn't match, are you sure
> you are using OSMesa >= 9.0?
> error: called from
>      __opengl_print__ at line 172 column 7
>      print at line 431 column 14
>      geometryimages at line 55 column 5
> make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/voronoi.eps] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/eric/octave_dev/octave'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/eric/octave_dev/octave'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> I know this is a known issue, and I've tried the suggestions at
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44249 but so far have had no luck. If
> anyone is willing to help me out getting octave to build completely, I'd
> really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Eric

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