Re: Error installing package on classdef tip

[Richard Crozier]

On 23/10/2013 13:53, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:44:32 +0100, Richard Crozier wrote:
> > On 23/10/2013 10:32, Richard Crozier wrote:
> > > I'm using hg id e2ed1c0ac403 (classdef) tip
> >
> > I manually added #include <string> to version.h
>
> FYI this was fixed on default but probably not yet merged to classdef.
>
>    http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/3d862202c4f6
>
> > now I get
> >
> > > > pkg install odepkg -forge
> > In file included from /usr/include/hdf5.h:24:0,
> >                   from
> > /usr/local/include/octave-3.7.7+/octave/oct-hdf5.h:27,
> >                   from /usr/local/include/octave-3.7.7+/octave/ov.h:42,
> >                   from /usr/local/include/octave-3.7.7+/octave/oct-obj.h:34,
> >                   from /usr/local/include/octave-3.7.7+/octave/ov-fcn.h:32,
> >                   from
> > /usr/local/include/octave-3.7.7+/octave/ov-builtin.h:28,
> >                   from
> > /usr/local/include/octave-3.7.7+/octave/defun-int.h:28,
> >                   from
> > /usr/local/include/octave-3.7.7+/octave/defun-dld.h:30,
> >                   from /usr/local/include/octave-3.7.7+/octave/oct.h:36,
> >                   from odepkg_octsolver_mebdfdae.cc:43:
> > /usr/include/H5public.h:63:20: fatal error: mpi.h: No such file or directory
>
> Yeah, this means you have one of the MPI-enabled versions of HDF5
> installed. On Debian/Ubuntu these packages are libhdf5-mpich2-dev and
> libhdf5-openmpi-dev. I recommend installing the non-MPI library,
> libhdf5-dev (or libhdf5-serial-dev if you're on LTS or other old
> release) and this problem will go away. If you can't or want to keep the
> packages you have, you'll have to add the appropriate compiler flags to
> build with the MPI headers.
>
> I have used
>
>    CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/mpi -DMPICH_SKIP_MPICXX -DOMPI_SKIP_MPICXX"
>
> with success when building Octave. If you build Octave this way, those
> flags are saved in the defaults for mkoctfile passed to all subsequent
> oct-file builds. Otherwise, for building a package as you are, I think
> you can add that to your environment and mkoctfile will pick it up. It
> should not need to be something you add to the makefile for odepkg.
>
> HTH,


Thanks for the help Mike, I think switching to the non MPI-enabled libs 
will suit me best.

Richard

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