Re: Trying to compile Octave on RHEL 7.3

[Michael Metts]

ok.  i’m doing a test build now.  i’ll download 4.2.1 and try the same 
techniques on that.  i looked at the Sundails site the other day and like Ozzy 
suggested it looks as though the Sundails I have from EPEL was compiled without 
the IDAKLU switch … even though i thought i read that it was the default.  i 
was tempted to build Sundials myself but maybe i’ll leave well enough alone at 
this point.

i would like to help out but i’m so terribly green at build/make and such.  
it’s been years since i actually programmed in C or C++ … or even Fortran so 
i’d be embarrassed at the results i’d get with any serious mucking about with a 
build such as this.

i would be open to being an ignorant build tester, though.  we are likely to 
focus on RHEL and AIX here at my firm indefinitely.  we have a lot of PhD, 
Finance and Econ folks that want and expect Matlab … but we’d rather not run it 
on RHEL.  it’s expensive enough on Windows.  it’s possible that some RHEL 
Octave build here could become “mission critical” for some analysis in the 
future.  but for now, it’s more about showing/proving that this is a great or 
“good enough” alternative and the 48-core RHEL system will lure them in.

thanks for all your help.  with the above in mind, let me know what you 
recommend re: me participating.  

> On Mar 2, 2017, at 9:51 AM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 09:45:31 -0800, Michael Metts wrote:
>> ha!  awesome.  i’m down to just the Sundials issue now.  so, Mike,
>> should i switch to the build you recommended or is it okay
>> (reasonable) to continue with the dev build from the hg repo?
> 
> I would say that unless you have a reason to use the dev version, you
> should be using 4.2.1. And coincidentally the sundials support is not in
> the 4.2 branch, so that warning will go away.
> 
> If you want to volunteer some time to help the devs figure out why the
> sundials detection is not working on your system, I'm sure it would be
> appreciated, but if you just want a working Octave, go with 4.2.1.
> 
> -- 
> mike