Re: On mkoctfile and Spline Package Installation

[Søren Hauberg]

I'm sorry I wasn't clear. You need to have the 'mkoctfile' command 
available at the standard system terminal (not the octave terminal). 
But, yes I think you need to install 'octave-headers' and 
'octave-devel', if that is indeed what the packages are called on your 
system.

Søren

Nose Nada skrev:
> Thanks Soren!
>
> I do have the mkoctfile command available in the Octave terminal.
> Do you think I should install 'octave-headers' and 'octave-devel'?
>
> Looking forward,
>
> Omar
>
>
> Søren Hauberg wrote:
> > I don't know the fedora system, but on many systems you need a package 
> > called 'octave-headers', 'octave-devel' or something like that. Check if 
> > you have the 'mkoctfile' file command available in a terminal. That's 
> > the one you need.
> >
> > Søren
> >
> > Nose Nada skrev:
> > > Thanks David!
> > > I'm using Fedora 7 and I think that the compilers are installed. For
> > > example:
> > >
> > > address@hidden /]# rpm -q gcc
> > > gcc-4.1.2-12
> > >
> > > Is this enough? Or am I missing something?
> > >
> > > Omar
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > dbateman wrote:
> > > > Nose Nada wrote:
> > > > > Hello there!
> > > > >
> > > > > I have just recently installed Octave under Fedora 7. Everything OK.
> > > > > However, when I tried to installed the spline-gcvspl package from
> > > > > Octave-forge I have problems:
> > > > >
> > > > > octave:6> pkg install spline-gcvspl-1.0.1.tar.gz
> > > > > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> > > > > See `config.log' for more details.
> > > > > error: the configure script returned the following error: checking for
> > > > > gcc... gcc
> > > > > checking for C compiler default output file name... 
> > > > > error: called from `pkg:configure_make' in file
> > > > > /usr/share/octave/2.9.13/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 989, column 2
> > > > Looks like you are missing the compilers.. What OS/platform are you
> > > > running on? Did you install the compilers?
> > > >
> > > > > I tried a different package:
> > > > > octave:5> pkg install informationtheory-0.1.1.tar.gz
> > > > > and it work perfectly.
> > > > > Can anyone give a hint on how to deal with this? My experience in Linux
> > > > > is
> > > > > very poor, I'm just a beginner.
> > > > > Thanks in advance, folks!
> > > > The informationtheory packages is just a collection of m-files and so
> > > > doesn't need a compiler. Therefore it installs fine.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Omar
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