Configuring Octave

[Sergei Steshenko]

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

> From: Labitt, Bruce <labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com>
> Subject: RE: Configuring Octave
> To: sergstesh at yahoo.com, help-octave at octave.org
> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 11:23 AM
> > 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

I think you should write

LIBS="-lpcre -L/lib64"
;
the "-L/lib64" part may be unnecessary.

--Sergei.