Octave 3.0.0 and HDF5 1.8.0 compilation error

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Feb-2008, address@hidden wrote:

| Dear developers,
| 
| I am trying to compile octave-3.0.0. The configure has the summary output:
| 
|       BLAS libraries:       -llapack -lblas
|       FFTW libraries:       -lfftw3
|       GLPK libraries:       -lglpk
|       UMFPACK libraries:    -lumfpack
|       AMD libraries:        -lamd
|       CAMD libraries:       -lcamd
|       COLAMD libraries:     -lcolamd
|       CCOLAMD libraries:    -lccolamd
|       CHOLMOD libraries:    -lcholmod
|       CXSPARSE libraries:   -lcxsparse
|       HDF5 libraries:       -lhdf5
|       CURL libraries:       -lcurl
|       REGEX libraries:      -lpcre
|       QHULL libraries:      -lqhull
|       LIBS:                 -lreadline  -lncurses -ldl -lhdf5 -lz -lm
|       Default pager:        less
|       gnuplot:              gnuplot
| 
|       Do internal array bounds checking:  false
|       Build static libraries:             false
|       Build shared libraries:             true
|       Dynamic Linking:                    true (dlopen)
|       Include support for GNU readline:   true
|       64-bit array dims and indexing:     false
| 
| But there are compilation errors with HDF5 1.8.0 library, e.g. see
| the "make-end.log.gz" and "configure.log.gz" attached files.
| 
| The HDF5 1.8.0 library was installed and tested without errors.
| 
| Which version of the HDF5 library should be used ?
| 
| Regards,
| Jorge D'Elia.
| 
| PD: I'm sorry by my previous message to the wrong list ...

Your configure log starts with:

  checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
  checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

What Linux distribution are you using, and why are you (apparently)
going to all the trouble of building all these packages like HDF5 from
source yourself?  Why not use binary packages for those?  For that
matter, why not use a binary package for Octave?

jwe