Re: /opt/octave_dev install prefix

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On Friday, September 23, 2016 10:42:41 Rik wrote:
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> On 09/23/2016 09:00 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > while trying to build the source on ubuntu 16.04, I get 2 warnings during
> > 'sudo make install'  that "libinterp/***" was not installed in
> > "/opt/octave_dev". Is this okay to continue? I did not get such warnings
> > while compiling octave earlier.
> > I used "/opt/octave_dev" as prefix.
> > The make install succeeded and I can use octave without errors(as far as
> > I can see).
> > .
> > Abhinav
> 
> I tried this on my Linux machine and it didn't give any errors.  Maybe
> there is just something weird with your local Linux configuration.  As long
> as 'make check' passes, we can probably ignore it.


If not only the install prefix, 
but also the toolchain (gcc, binutils)
are in a non-standard location,
then there might be issue with "sudo make install":
http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/311882/104955

By the way, octave-4.2.0-rc2 builds fine with the gcc-6.2.0/binutils2.27 
toolchain on x86_64:
PASS 14769
FAIL 0
XFAIL 34
SKIPPED 63