Re: help octave forge

[Paul Kienzle]

Luke Scharf wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 19:30, Matt Wesley wrote:
> > I'm new to Linux and Octave and have been trying to install the octave-forge 
> > package. During make it gives a large number of various errors and it 
> > aborts. As far as I know I have followed the instructions correctly. If 
> > anyone would like to help me out in this one I'd be very grateful.
> >   
>
> I had a similar problem.  There were two issues:
>
>         1. Get the right version of octave-forge.  Each release of
>         octave-forge is for a specific version of Octave.  It's noted on
>         the page, but it took me a couple of downloads to get it
>         right... :-)
A CVS snapshot should compile for 2.1.36 and up.
Perhaps it is worth making a new release for this. 
>         2. Instead of "make", use "make -k".  this will continue if
>         something won't compile, and skip the functions/modules that
>         don't compile.  I did this and the functions I wanted worked.
This is probably worth doing by default, assuming a
suitable message is printed at the end, preferably
saying which functions didn't build.  Feel free to send
a patch.

Paul Kienzle
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