Re: octave install

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- On Wed, 2014/4/9, address@hidden wrote:

> On Wednesday, April 09, 2014 10:56 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > --- On Wed, 2014/4/9, Fausto Arinos de A. Barbuto  wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 6:48:17 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA  wrote:
> >>
> >> --- On Wed, 2014/4/9, Fausto Arinos de A. Barbuto wrote:
> >>>> Hi, Tatsuro.  Thanks for your reply.
> >>>>
> >>>> Unfortunately, I didn't keep a build log neither did I save the error
> >>>> messages that were displayed onto the xterm.  But I will definitely
> >>>> save a log and will post it here should I ever decide to try installing
> >>>> 3.8 on my computer again.
> >>>>
> >>>> For the time being, a question stands: why should gmsh be removed from
> >>>> the system upon the installation of Octave 3.8's dependencies?  I fail
> >>>> to understand why.
> >>>
> >>> I have not used gmsh. If I can find time, I will try to install gmsh and 
> >>> build octave-3.8.1 and see what will happen.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> You may have other stuff uninstalled.  Watch out.
> >>
> >> Fausto
> >>
> >
> > I installed the gmsh using the synaptic packge manager and built 
> > octave-3.8.1.
> > I could build it without any errors.
> >
> > make check results:
> >
> > Summary:
> >
> >    PASS     11537
> >    FAIL         0
> >    XFAIL        7
> >    SKIPPED      2
> >
> > I noticed that a few octave depency libraries (e.g hd5) were replaced in 
> > installing the gmsh.
> 
> Is your self-compiled octave built against libhdf5-openmpi or 
> libhdf5-serial? They conflict with one another. The former was pulled in 
> by gmsh, along the chain of dependencies.
> 
> Regards,
> ST
> -- 

> Is your self-compiled octave built against libhdf5-openmpi or 
> libhdf5-serial?

libhdf5-openmpi

The synaptic package manager uninstalled libhdf5-serial and installed 
libhdf5-openmpi at installing gmsh.

Regards
Tatsuro