RE:

[Roberto Porcù]

On 28 Dec 2013, at 10:05, c. <address@hidden> wrote:

>>On 28 Dec 2013, at 00:44, Roberto Porcù <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Neither this way works. I still get the same error.
>> Do I have to try to reinstall Octave?

>I don't think so.
>To find out what is happening you should try to compile "odepkg" manually 
>rather than trough "pkg >install":

>cd odepkg/src
>./configure
>make

>c.

In odepkg/src I typed
$ bash autogen.sh
$ ./configure
and I got this error:


checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for mkoctfile... mkoctfile
retrieving compile and link flags from mkoctfile
checking for F77_FUNC... yes
checking for octave... octave
checking for OCTAVE_VERSION in Octave... warning: readline is not linked, so 
history control is not available
3.6.4
checking for octave_config_info('canonical_host_type') in Octave... warning: 
readline is not linked, so history control is not available
i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for octave_config_info('SHLEXT') in Octave... warning: readline is not 
linked, so history control is not available
so
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Makeconf.in'


Roberto