Re: octave on development level

[Werner Koenig]

On 29.09.2013 12:58, c. wrote:
> On 29 Sep 2013, at 11:45, Werner Koenig <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Ok, I want do it, but a little help from the list is welcome.
> you're welcome to ask for help, but if you are trying to build the
> development version I think the maintainers mailing list is a more appropriate
> place to continue the discussion, so I am moving the discussion there.
>
> > hg clone http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
> > after a ./bootstrap and ./configure --prefix=/opt/octave which works
> if your "./configure" had worked ...
>
> > > What does the flex-related section in config.log say?
> > the config.log on my system is yet complete empty.
> ... then your config.log would not be empty, actually even if ./configure fails
> it will still write the error messages to config.log.
It was my error. I looked to /var/log/config.log and not to the 
config.log of the
current build.

The main error was made on the first build. At this time I haven't a 
properly
set up of a flex on my system. This was remarked by the system. A download
and installing of flex on my system, doesn't change the configure state. 
Therefor
the compile of octave on development level failed. A new run of 
./configure with
properly set to the flex solved the problem.  Now I have an octave on 
development
level in /opt/octave/bin. The startup for this program is 
/opt/octave/bin/octave.


So long Werner