compile error please help more help

Doug Stewart dastew at sympatico.ca
Sun Dec 14 18:40:51 CST 2008


Doug Stewart wrote:
> Thomas Weber wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 03:37:40PM -0500, Doug Stewart wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>>> 2) What does
>>>> ldd src/regexp.oct | grep -i pcre
>>>> (run from the shell) return ?
>>>>
>>>> c.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> I downloaded and ./configure and make and make install pcre
>>> Now I am starting over with a fresh install and try.
>>> I will report the result later.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Ouch. PCRE surely comes with your distribution. 
>>
>> What's the output of 
>> 	apt-get build-dep octave3.0
>> ?
>>
>> 	Thomas
>>
>>   
>>     
> wow this showed up about 23 files missing.
>
> I will now try again
>
>   
this time it was great!!!! 1 hr. to do make and make check
thanks to Thomas!!! That really helped.



Summary:

PASS 5352
FAIL 3

There were 4 expected failures (see fntests.log for details).

I guess one of the failures got fixed :-)
Now I will work on getting gnuplot to work.



octave:1> plot([1 2],[3 4])
Expected X11 driver: /usr/lib/gnuplot/gnuplot_x11
Exec failed: No such file or directory
See 'help x11' for more details
Expected X11 driver: /usr/lib/gnuplot/gnuplot_x11
Exec failed: No such file or directory
See 'help x11' for more details

multiplot> et origin 0, 0
^
line 0: invalid command

octave:2> help x11

help: `x11' not found
Additional help for built-in functions and operators is
available in the on-line version of the manual. Use the command
`doc <topic>' to search the manual index.

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octave:3>


Doug





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