Re: Question about building under Linux

[Quentin Spencer]

James P. Howard, II wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:30 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > On 29-Apr-2008, James P. Howard, II wrote:
> >
> >  | Beautiful List Members,
> >
> >  ?
> >     
>
> Well, a little bit of fun never hurt.
>
>   
> >  | I am trying to build Octave 3.0.1 under Linux.  During configure, it
> >  | notes that UMFPACK, and others, are unavailable, and I need these
> >  | features.  I have downloaded and successfully built SuiteSparse.
> >  | However, I cannot determine how to tell configure where these
> >  | libraries are installed and obvious solutions don't seem to work.
> >  | What is the method?
> >
> >  On my system, the method is
> >
> >   apt-get update
> >   apt-get build-dep octave3.0
> >
> >  What GNU/Linux distribution are you using?
> >     
>
> I'm using RedHat, but I specifically wish to avoid using RPM to
> install.  Which leads back to my original question.  How does Octave
> know where the libraries are installed?
>   


Which version of Red Hat? For RHEL 5.0 there are add-on packages, 
including octave 3.0 in EPEL (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL).

Why not RPM? If this is a problem with lack of root access on your 
system, then I presume you have not installed SuiteSparse in a system 
path, in which case you would need to specify the path when you 
configure octave.

Quentin