Installing Octave from source file onto cluster

[yashar mehmani]

Hey all,
I'm trying to install octave on a cluster (Lonestar on TACC), from the
source file. I have unzipped the octave-3.4.3.tar.gz file and I cd'ed
into it and I know that I have to do the following three steps:

1) ./configure
2)make
3) make install

but in the first step I get the following and I cannot move forward any further:

configure: WARNING: Qhull library not found -- this will result in
loss of functionality of some geometry functions.
checking whether pcre.h defines the macros we need... no
configure: error: to build Octave, you must have the PCRE library and
header files installed

I'm a newbie so could you explain to me in steps what I can do to have
it configured successfully so I can run "make"?

Thanks a bunch folks,
Yashar

PS:  I cannot use "yum/apt-get/etc." on the cluster linux because I
don't have administrative privilages but I can install from source
files, which obviously I'm new to.


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Yashar Mehmani
Dept. of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, C0300
Austin, TX  78712-0228