Configuring Octave

[Labitt, Bruce]

> 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
> 

This typically means you do not have the GCC suite installed.

--Sergei.

[Labitt, Bruce] Hmm, interesting.  Is there something in particular that
may be missing?  This is my gcc list installed

gcc 			x86_64	4.1.2-42.el5
gcc-c++		x86_64	"
gcc-gfortran	x86_64	"
libgcc		i386		"			why this is
here?
libgcc		x86_64	"
libstdc++		i386		"			why this
is here?
libstdc++		x86_64	"

pcre			i386		6.6-2.el5_1.7	can't uninstall
pcre			x86_64	6.6-2.el5_1.7

What am I missing?
-Bruce