Compiling Octave from hg repo

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-May-2008, Andrea Spadaccini wrote:

| Hello everybody,
| I tried to compile Octave directly from the Mercurial repository, as Thomas
| suggested in order to fix problems with jhandles.
| 
| So I did the following:
| hg clone http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
| ./autogen.sh
| ./configure --prefix="/home/andrea/installed-sw/"
| make -j3
| 
| and then I got those errors:
| 
| g++: pic/CmplxGEPBAL.o: No such file or directory
| g++: pic/dbleGEPBAL.o: No such file or directory
| g++: pic/fCmplxGEPBAL.o: No such file or directory
| g++: pic/fCmplxHESS.o: No such file or directory
| g++: pic/fCmplxQR.o: No such file or directory
| g++: pic/fCmplxQRP.o: No such file or directory
| g++: pic/floatGEPBAL.o: No such file or directory
| g++: pic/floatHESS.o: No such file or directory
| g++: pic/floatQR.o: No such file or directory
| g++: pic/floatQRP.o: No such file or directory
| make[2]: *** [liboctave.so] Error 1
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/andrea/octave-hg/octave/liboctave'
| make[1]: *** [liboctave] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/andrea/octave-hg/octave'
| make: *** [all] Error 2
| 
| Should I do anything else?

Update and try again.  I think this problem has already been fixed.

jwe