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From: | Michael D Godfrey |
Subject: | Re: Build a portable linux binary? |
Date: | Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:54:37 +0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.0 |
On 2/19/19 1:57 PM, John W. Eaton
wrote:
I doubt that it is possible to build Octave and all dependencies as static libraries.This has been a long-standing problem for all "distributions". Not only is it hard to achieve for any one system (RHEL 6, and xx, and SuSE 11 are just examples) but then maintaining the port through system updates makes it a constant effort. Improving the current installation procedures from source may be more productive. A script that just identifies all required dependencies and how to download and install them could help. I have not checked the current instructions lately but they tend to be written for people who have considerable knowledge. A "beginner's" set of instructions might help. Of course, even this would require constant maintenance and updating... I looked at: https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/ for how R handles distribution. In outline it seems to have some good features. They support binary downloads for "Linux" (but not Fedora...), Mac, and Windows. (No mention of RHEL...) For others they give some instructions for download and compile. However, I doubt if this works much better than the current Octave procedures. So, just trying to keep the current download source, install all dependencies, and compile procedures reasonably clear and up-to-date may be the best that can be done. Michael |
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