Re: warnings using configure for Octave 3.4

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 2, 2012, at 8:12 PM, Sachinthaka Abeywardana wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I tried to download and compile from source Octave 3.4 and I get the 
> following warnings. Any idea how to fix these: (I am running 64-bit Ubuntu 
> 11.10)
> 
>   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: UMFPACK not found.  This will result in some lack of 
> functionality for sparse matrices.
> configure: WARNING: qrupdate not found.  The QR & Cholesky updating functions 
> will be slow.
> configure: WARNING: AMD library not found.  This will result in some lack of 
> functionality for sparse matrices.
> configure: WARNING: COLAMD library not found.  This will result in some lack 
> of functionality for sparse matrices.
> configure: WARNING: CCOLAMD library not found.  This will result in some lack 
> of functionality for sparse matrices.
> configure: WARNING: CHOLMOD library not found.  This will result in some lack 
> of functionality for sparse matrices.
> configure: WARNING: CXSparse library not found.  This will result in some 
> lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
> configure: WARNING: cURL library not found.  The ftp objects, urlread and 
> urlwrite functions will be disabled.
> configure: WARNING: GLPK library not found.  The glpk function for solving 
> linear programs 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sachin

Looks like you're missing some dependencies. If I recall the command correctly, 
you can install all the necessary dependencies by ...

        sudo apt-get build-dep octave

Ben