Re: octave installation problem - linux/limits.h

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Jun-2010, Vincent Letocart wrote:

| On 06 June 2010, at 05:35:04 (Epoch+1275798904 sec), bijoy wrote : 
| > Hi
| > 
| > I need help in installing octave,
| > 
| > I have downloaded octave-3.2.4.tar.bz2, and unzipped to a folder 
octave-3.2.4.
| > 
| > when I run ./confconfigure:
| > 
| > 
| > configure: error: in `/home/bijoy/work/software_bkps/octave-3.2.4':
| > configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
| > See `config.log' for more details.
| > 
| > I have attached the config.log 
| > 
| > Could anyone help me to resolve this issue please ?
| > 
| > Thanks and regards
| > Bijoy
| 
| On suse, the linux/limits.h file comes with kernel headers.
| 
| Can you install the 'linux-kernel-headers' package corresponding
| to your kernel version (2.6.27), then check if /usr/include/linux/limits.h
| is effectively present on your system ?

I would be really surprised if it is necessary to have the kernel
headers package installed to build Octave.

jwe