Re: no mkoctfile?

[Michael Creel]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Michael Creel <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm compiling Octave 3.4.0 for PelicanHPC, and all goes well except
> that mkoctfile in not to be found in /usr/local/bin. The octave
> executable is there. I have searched the build log and do not see any
> problems. When I build 3.4.0 for my own use on my machine, I have
> mkoctfile as usual.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> Here's the last bit of ./configure's output in case that helps:
>
>
> Octave is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
>  Source directory:            .
>  Installation prefix:         /usr/local
>  C compiler:                  gcc   -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wformat
> -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes
> -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -g -O2 -pthread
>  C++ compiler:                g++    -Wall -W -Wshadow
> -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-align
> -Wcast-qual -g -O2
>  Fortran compiler:            gfortran -O
>  Fortran libraries:            -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5
> -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../lib -L/lib/../lib
> -L/usr/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../..
> -lgfortranbegin -lgfortran -lm
>  Lex libraries:
>  LIBS:                        -lm
>
>  AMD CPPFLAGS:
>  AMD LDFLAGS:
>  AMD libraries:               -lamd
>  BLAS libraries:              -lcblas -lf77blas -latlas
>  CAMD CPPFLAGS:
>  CAMD LDFLAGS:
>  CAMD libraries:              -lcamd
>  CARBON libraries:
>  CCOLAMD CPPFLAGS:
>  CCOLAMD LDFLAGS:
>  CCOLAMD libraries:           -lccolamd
>  CHOLMOD CPPFLAGS:
>  CHOLMOD LDFLAGS:
>  CHOLMOD libraries:           -lcholmod
>  COLAMD CPPFLAGS:
>  COLAMD LDFLAGS:
>  COLAMD libraries:            -lcolamd
>  CURL CPPFLAGS:
>  CURL LDFLAGS:
>  CURL libraries:
>  CXSPARSE CPPFLAGS:
>  CXSPARSE LDFLAGS:
>  CXSPARSE libraries:          -lcxsparse
>  DL libraries:                -ldl
>  FFTW3 CPPFLAGS:
>  FFTW3 LDFLAGS:
>  FFTW3 libraries:             -lfftw3
>  FFTW3F CPPFLAGS:
>  FFTW3F LDFLAGS:
>  FFTW3F libraries:            -lfftw3f
>  fontconfig CFLAGS:
>  fontconfig LIBS:
>  FT2_CFLAGS:
>  FT2_LIBS:
>  GLPK CPPFLAGS:
>  GLPK LDFLAGS:
>  GLPK libraries:              -lglpk
>  graphics CFLAGS:
>  graphics LIBS:
>  Magick++ CPPFLAGS:
>  Magick++ LDFLAGS:
>  Magick++ libraries:
>  HDF5 CPPFLAGS:
>  HDF5 LDFLAGS:
>  HDF5 libraries:
>  LAPACK libraries:            -llapack
>  OPENGL libraries:
>  PTHREAD flags:               -pthread
>  PTHREAD libraries:
>  QHULL CPPFLAGS:
>  QHULL LDFLAGS:
>  QHULL libraries:
>  QRUPDATE libraries:          -lqrupdate
>  READLINE libraries:          -lreadline
>  REGEX libraries:             -L/usr/lib -lpcre
>  TERM libraries:              -lncurses
>  UMFPACK libraries:           -lumfpack
>  X11 include flags:
>  X11 libraries:               -lX11
>  Z CPPFLAGS:
>  Z LDFLAGS:
>  Z libraries:                 -lz
>
>  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
>
> configure: WARNING: I didn't find gperf, but it's only a problem if
> you need to reconstruct oct-gperf.h
> configure: WARNING: I didn't find flex, but it's only a problem if you
> need to reconstruct lex.cc
> configure: WARNING: I didn't find bison, but it's only a problem if
> you need to reconstruct parse.cc
> configure: WARNING: cURL library not found.  The ftp objects, urlread
> and urlwrite functions will be disabled.
> configure: WARNING: GraphicsMagick++ library not found.  The imread
> function for reading image files will not be fully functional.
> configure: WARNING: HDF5 library not found.  Octave will not be able
> to save or load HDF5 data files.
> configure: WARNING: Qhull library not found -- this will result in
> loss of functionality of some geometry functions.
> configure: WARNING: OpenGL libs (GL and GLU) not found. Native
> graphics will be disabled.
> configure: WARNING:
> configure: WARNING: I didn't find the necessary libraries to compile native
> configure: WARNING: graphics.  It isn't necessary to have native graphics,
> configure: WARNING: but you will need to have gnuplot installed or you won't
> configure: WARNING: be able to use any of Octave's plotting commands
> configure: WARNING:
> configure:
> configure: NOTE: libraries may be skipped if a library is not found OR
> configure: NOTE: if the library on your system is missing required features.
>

Well, I installed the libraries needed for native graphics (GL, GLU,
FLTK, freetype) and now I have mkoctfile. That seems like a bizarre
interaction to me, but at any rate, it fixed the problem.
Michael