Re: octave forge build problem

[Quentin Spencer]

Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

> Banachewicz KP wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> > I tried to complile octave forge (on red hat 9), with octave 2.1.40
> > already installed and running smoothly. When I tried to "make", I got 
> > the
> > following:
>
> To compile octave-forge you need to build octave with shared library 
> support
> enabled. I suspect you have octave provided by redhat, where such support
> is disabled.

I'm not sure about Red Hat 9, but in all recent Fedora releases shared 
libraries appear to be enabled. Here is the command from the SPEC file 
used for the Fedora Core 2 release:
../configure --enable-dl --enable-shared=yes --enable-rpath 
--enable-lite-kernel --enable-picky-flags --enable-static=no --with-g77 
--prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info

I'm not sure what the particular problem is here, but since most of the 
octave-forge developers keep current with octave releases, it's possible 
that at some point compatibility with old releases was broken 
inadvertently, so I would also recommend building a recent version of 
octave and then try rebuilding octave-forge.

Quentin



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