Re: Building/installing Octave as a non-administrator on a sudo system

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 10/05/2013 03:13 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 10/05/2013 01:05 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> >  Given trends, I've now had the experience of working on a sudo-linux
> >  system.
>
> I don't know what "trends" you are talking about or what you mean by
> "sudo-linux system".
>
> >  Things seemed to build fine. And I could run. Installing packages didn't
> >  go well, however. The complaint from "pkg" command was that there is no
> >  "mkoctfile".
>
> Did you install Octave, or were you trying to build packages when
> running Octave in the build directory with the ./run-octave script?

I attempted package installation from ./run-octave.


> If you installed Octave, then the mkoctfile script corresponding to the
> version of Octave that you built and installed should have also been
> installed in the same directory as the octave binary. And then the pkg
> command should have found that mkoctfile script.
>
> If you tried to build a package with mkoctfile when running Octave from
> the build tree with the ./run-octave script, then that is not currently
> expected to work.

Right.  I suppose rather than just "make install", one needs to 
configure the build with:

./configure --prefix='/home/<account>/bin'

I will try that when I get a chance.

Dan