Re: "pkg" command not found

[Brian Kaczynski]

Søren Hauberg wrote:
> ons, 07 10 2009 kl. 08:43 -0700, skrev Brian Kaczynski:
>   
> > I started the procedure to install Octave 3.2.3 but I'm running into
> > problems where it seems I need to install a new version of gcc and
> > possibly make as well, and who knows what else.  Is there an earlier
> > version of Octave that has the "pkg" feature but won't lead me down a
> > bottomless rabbit hole of updates to software that I really don't want
> > to update?
> >     
>
> I doubt it. It is fairly easy to just download earlier versions and try,
> but I _guessing_ that you'll run into problems. If you only need a few
> packages, then it is usually fairly easy to install them without using
> 'pkg' although this is not recommended (just uncompress the package file
> and look at the contents).
>
> Søren
>   
Installing the package from the Unix command-line sounds like the best idea.

Unfortunately, I only got through "configure."  When I try to "make all" 
I get the following errors:

gsl-1.0.8 [65]% make all
make[1]: Entering directory `/people/briankaz/gsl-1.0.8/src'
/bin/sh buildgsl_sf.sh
mkoctfile -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 -v  coupling_3j.cc -lgsl
g++ -c -fPIC -I/usr/include/octave-2.1.57 
-I/usr/include/octave-2.1.57/octave -g -O2 -DHAVE_OCTAVE_21 
coupling_3j.cc -o coupling_3j.o
coupling_3j.cc: In function `octave_value_list Fcoupling_3j(const 
octave_value_list&, int)':
/usr/include/octave-2.1.57/octave/defun-int.h:36: error: too few 
arguments to function `void print_usage(const std::string&, bool)'
coupling_3j.cc:54: error: at this point in file
/usr/include/octave-2.1.57/octave/defun-int.h:36: error: too few 
arguments to function `void print_usage(const std::string&, bool)'
coupling_3j.cc:64: error: at this point in file
/usr/include/octave-2.1.57/octave/defun-int.h:36: error: too few 
arguments to function `void print_usage(const std::string&, bool)'
coupling_3j.cc:75: error: at this point in file
make[1]: *** [coupling_3j.oct] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/people/briankaz/gsl-1.0.8/src'
make: *** [build] Error 2
gsl-1.0.8 [66]%

Any ideas what else I'm missing?

Thanks,
-Brian