Resolved -- octave compile in RH 6.1

[Andy Boden]

All,

Previously I had written:

> Okay, no big deal, just run configure and recompile it under the new
> RH release and I should be back up and working.  Well, I tried that this
> morning and I ran into a problem with the code looking for nan.h --
> which xists in /usr/include on my RH 5.2 laptop but no longer exists on my
> RH 6.1 desktop.

To which Joao Cardoso <address@hidden> correctly responded:

> recompiled? if this means that you had run 'configure' without 'make
> distclean' (or removing all config.cache), than you was using the
> previously 'configure' results.

This is the key -- I had done a "make clean", which (apparently) did not
clear
the state left by the previous configure run under RH 5, a subtlty I had
not
previously appreciated.  Acting on Joao's "make distclean" suggestion
resulted
in a clean build and functional octave.  Bottom line -- pilot error.

Thanks for all who took the time to respond.

                                                                - A.B.



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