Compile Problem with Octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Aug-2011, Feuerbacher, Alan wrote:

| In trying to install Octave 3.4.2 on a company computer running Red Hat Linux
| 5, I got the following error when running make:
| 
|  
| 
| Making all in src
| 
| make[2]: Entering directory `/home/afbacher/GCC/Octave/octave-3.4.2/src'
| 
| ./DLD-FUNCTIONS/config-module.sh ..
| 
| ../src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/module.mk is unchanged
| 
| \
| 
| #      \
| 
|       \
| 
|                   \
| 
|      -lpcre \
| 
|       \
| 
|       \
| 
|       \
| 
|       \
| 
|       \
| 
|         \
| 
|        \
| 
|     -lreadline -lncurses \
| 
|      \
| 
|     -llapack -lcblas -lf77blas -latlas \
| 
|       \
| 
|     -lm   \
| 
|     -L/home/afbacher/GCC/GCC_2_4.6.1/install/lib -L/home/afbacher/GCC/PCRE/
| install/lib -L/home/afbacher/GCC/LAPACK/ATLAS3.8.4/install/lib 
-L/home/afbacher
| /GCC/Octave/install/lib -L/home/afbacher/GCC/GCC_2_4.6.1/install/lib/gcc/
| x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.1 
-L/home/afbacher/GCC/GCC_2_4.6.1/install/lib/gcc
| /x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../../../lib64 -L/lib/../lib64 
-L/usr/lib/..
| /lib64 -L/home/afbacher/GCC/GCC_2_4.6.1/install/lib/gcc/
| x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../.. -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath
| 
| /bin/sh: line 12: -lpcre: command not found
| 
| make[2]: *** [DLD-FUNCTIONS/module.mk] Error 127
| 
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/afbacher/GCC/Octave/octave-3.4.2/src'
| 
| make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
| 
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/afbacher/GCC/Octave/octave-3.4.2'
| 
| make: *** [all] Error 2
| 
|  
| 
| I have no clue what to do about this.
| 
| Related to this problem is that, just prior to getting to this point in 
running
| make, I got an error like ?Missing message separator? for the above line
| beginning with DLD-FUNCTIONS. I found a fix on the Net: In the Makefile 
replace
| the five spaces at the beginning of the next line with a tab. You can see in
| the above where I commented out the line with five spaces and added one with a
| tab. This got past the message separator problem.

It looks like there are some things missing in that command.  It is
certainly not supposed to start with -lpcre, which is the name of a
library.  It should start with a libtool link command.  I can't tell
why this is happening without seeing more context.  For starters, can
you send the Makefile?  The mailing list has a size limit for
postings, so you'll need to compress it before attaching it.

| I?ve also found a number of things in the build process that might be 
improved,
| since I had to jump through some hoops (partly because of my relative
| inexperience in compiling GNU source code) to get things to work. If you folks
| are interested in my input, as a relatively naïve user of Octave, please let
| me know.

Sure, post the problems you found.  If you think they are bugs, it
might be best to report them here:

  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=octave

jwe