Re: Installing the new version 3.0.3 on Ubuntu version 8.10

[Carlo de Falco]

On 18 Feb 2009, at 12:51, Per Haugaard wrote:

> Dear user group,
>
> Trying for the first time to install octave on my Linux system.  
> After issuing the ./configure --prefix /opt/octave_v3 with no  
> trouble I issued the make command. Here I get the following error  
> and the make procedure is halted:
>
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [octave] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pha/Progz/octave-3.0.3/src'
> make[1]: *** [src] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pha/Progz/octave-3.0.3'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Make check gives the following message:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/pha/Progz/octave-3.0.3'
> make -C test check
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/pha/Progz/octave-3.0.3/test'
> ../run-octave --norc --silent --no-history ./fntests.m .
> exec: 72: /home/pha/Progz/octave-3.0.3/src/octave: not found
> make[2]: *** [check] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pha/Progz/octave-3.0.3/test'
> make[1]: *** [check] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pha/Progz/octave-3.0.3'
> make: *** [check] Error 2
>
> Running the make command I only noticed warnings on integers  
> especially on oct-inttypes.cc and oct-inttypes.h.
>
> The above description might not so informative.

Indeed the error messages  you provided are not enough...

> But hopefully some has had the same errors before. Any help or  
> feedback is appreciated

I can only try to guess, do you have all dependencies installed?
You can do it easiy on ubuntu by:

sudo apt-get build-dep octave

> /Per

c.