Octave 3.0.1 does not build on RHEL WS 4

[Ernest Williams]

On May 2, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Quentin Spencer wrote:

> Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
>> Quentin Spencer wrote:
>>> Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
>>>> Johann Cohen-Tanugi wrote:
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>>>>> well, as a matter of fact I dont see -I/usr/include in the  
>>>>> compiler command. Maybe it is related....
>>>>> Could you issue the command by hand adding this to it?
>>>>> Again, no expertise here.....
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>>>> I have already moved on to rerun configure without support for  
>>>> zlib which is optional.
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>>>> I would like to know what is the recommended optional packages.
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>>>> I am not sure what packages to add to my RHEL system.
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>>>> I am not sure that I like the following warnings from the  
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>>>> configure: WARNING: I didn't find gperf, but it's only a problem  
>>>> if you need to reconstruct oct-gperf.h
>>>> configure: WARNING: UMFPACK not found.  This will result in some  
>>>> lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
>>>> configure: WARNING: COLAMD not found. This will result in some  
>>>> lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
>>>> configure: WARNING: CCOLAMD not found. This will result in some  
>>>> lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
>>>> configure: WARNING: CHOLMOD not found. This will result in some  
>>>> lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
>>>> configure: WARNING: CXSparse not found. This will result in some  
>>>> lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
>>>> configure: WARNING: FFTW library not found.  Octave will use the  
>>>> (slower) FFTPACK library instead.
>>>> configure: WARNING: GLPK library not found.  The glpk function  
>>>> for solving linear programs will be disabled.
>>>> configure: WARNING: HDF5 library not found.  Octave will not be  
>>>> able to save or load HDF5 data files.
>>>> configure: WARNING: Qhull library not found --- This will result  
>>>> in loss of functionality of some geometry functions.
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>>>> NOTE: libraries may be skipped if a library is not found OR
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>>>> Bottomline, what RPMS are needed/recommended to support the above?
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>>> You can install fftw3 from the EPEL repositories. The other  
>>> packages you need are glpk, qhull, hdf5, and suitesparse, which  
>>> are not included in EPEL for RHEL4, but they are in EPEL for RHEL  
>>> 5, so you could try downloading and rebuilding the EPEL 5 SRPMS  
>>> (see http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/SRPMS/). I think  
>>> fftw support is important, but the other packages are for somewhat  
>>> specialized applications, so whether you need them depends on how  
>>> you plan to use octave.
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>> Thanks, this resolved my problem.  Thanks again!!
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>> The only features I don't have:
>> -- zlib support (Had to run configure   --without-zlib)
>> -- HDF5
>> -- CXSparse
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>> Could not get the src RPM packages to rebuild:
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>> rpmbuild --rebuild hdf5-1.6.5-7.el5.src.rpm
>> error: Failed build dependencies:
>>       gcc-gfortran is needed by hdf5-1.6.5-7.i386
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>> [root at lcls-dev2 octave-support]# rpmbuild --rebuild  
>> suitesparse-3.0.0-1.el5.src.rpm
>> Installing suitesparse-3.0.0-1.el5.src.rpm
>> error: Failed build dependencies:
>>       blas-devel is needed by suitesparse-3.0.0-1.i386
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>> One day, we will move to RHEL 5 and maybe I will have few problems.
>> For now, we have to use and support  RHEL 4
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> Since I'm the maintainer of suitesparse in Fedora, I have requested  
> a branch and successfully built an RPM for EPEL 4. It will probably  
> show up on the mirrors within a day or two. That should make it  
> easier for those who want to build octave 3.0 on RHEL 4. I'm also  
> the maintainer of glpk, so I may also do the same there. As for  
> building hdf5, I think if you edited the spec file to change the  
> dependency from gcc-gfortran to gcc-g77, it would probably build.

Excellent,  can you change the spec file as well?


Thanks,
Ernest




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