Re: Octave advocacy

[Josep Monés i Teixidor]

Javier Arántegui wrote:

> Usually the problem is not the compilation process itself what I find 
> difficult. It's uninstalling software what I think it's more complex. 
> Sometimes there is a 'make unistall' with the source but many times not. 
> Lately I have solved this problem creating myself the RPM files. To do this, 
> I am using 'checkinstall' instead 'make install' in the compilation process. 
> Checkinstall is one of the packets of my favourite distribution (SUSE 9.1 
> Pro) and can be found at <http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/>.
>
>  
Hi,

If projects use autotools, as Octave does, you can use --prefix 
parameter to configure to install the software to a desired directory. 
This way you can delete that directory:

For instance:
./configure --prefix=/home/javier/binaries/octave --enable-shared 
--disable-static
make
make install

If destination is writable by current user you can "make install" 
without becoming root.

You'll need to add /home/javier/binaries/octave/bin to your path in 
order to run it just typing octave.

Regards,

Josep



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