Re: pkg install problem

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:18 PM, William Christopher Carleton
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm using Ubuntu 8.1 on a Dell XPS m1210 and having trouble with Octave pkg 
> install. I'm trying to install the odepkg and get the following error:
>
> octave:1> install pkg odepkg-0.6.4.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/3.0.0/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1045, column 2
>
> octave:1> exit
>
> Any suggestions? I've tried invoking octave with sudo and also using sudo in 
> front of pkg install, but neither has worked.
>
> Chris
>
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Does compiling manually work? (I.e. untar, configure, make)
Often this is caused by a shared library in LIBS that is found at
compile time but not at runtime.


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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
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