Configuring Octave

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Tue, 7/22/08, Labitt, Bruce <labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com> wrote:

> From: Labitt, Bruce <labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com>
> Subject: Configuring Octave
> To: help-octave at octave.org
> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 8:00 AM
> Due to a bad bit of hardware causing a disk failure, I have
> had to
> recreate my copy of Octave.  I did take notes the last time
> through, but
> somehow one never seems to write down everything. :( 
> 
> I seem to have a problem configuring.  The first time
> through everything
> configured fine.  Make complained it could not find lpcre,
> so I checked
> my system and installed it.  I did a make clean and
> reconfigured.  I
> hope it is something simple like a syntax error.  (User
> Error!)  This is
> the configure statement:
> 
> ./configure --with-f77=gfortran
> --with-blas=/usr/lib64/libblas.so
> --with-lapack=/usr/lib64/liblapack.so --enable-shared
> --enable-64
> LIBS="-l/lib64/libpcre.so"
> 
> For some reason configure output is
> 
> ...
> checking for C compiler default output file name...
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See 'config.log' for more details
> 
> In config.log the following statement was found:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l/lib64/libpcre.so
> 
> I would appreciate any help the learned list could provide.
>  TIA.
> 
> -Bruce
> 
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This typically means you do not have the GCC suite installed.

--Sergei.