Trying to compile Octave on RHEL 7.3

[Michael L. Metts]

Hello,

 

I’ve been attempting to build the current version of Octave on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 and I’m running into some issues.  First, let me say that if there’s a YUM repo out there that’s complete, maintained and suitable for RHEL 7, please let me know.  I would much rather that than compiling myself.  I realize that there a maintained repo for Fedora but I wasn’t sure that was kosher – i.e. this is a production machine and I’d like to either have or build nothing but clean apps with no broken features.

 

All that said, I’ve been following these instructions here http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Red_Hat_Linux_systems and I get these errors from running ./configure:

 

configure: WARNING: QScintilla library not found; disabling built-in Qt GUI editor

configure: WARNING: Sundials IDA library not configured with IDAKLU, ode15i and ode15s will not support the sparse Jacobian feature

configure: WARNING: ARPACK not found.  The eigs function will be disabled.

 

This looks to me like the Octave application that would result would be a bit compromised and I’d rather solve these problems (or get maintained binaries for my Linux distribution).

 

In any case, I’ve poked around a little (see below) and I’m not real clear on how to fix these issues so I can get a clean build.  If anyone can give me a few thoughts on all this, I would really appreciate it.

 

Thanks,

Mike

 

address@hidden build]$ rpm -qa | grep -i scint

qscintilla-2.8-1.el7.x86_64

qscintilla-devel-2.8-1.el7.x86_64

address@hidden build]$ rpm -qa | grep -i sindial

address@hidden build]$ rpm -qa | grep -i sundials

sundials-2.7.0-6.el7.x86_64

sundials-fortran-2.7.0-6.el7.x86_64

sundials-fortran-devel-2.7.0-6.el7.x86_64

sundials-devel-2.7.0-6.el7.x86_64

address@hidden build]$ rpm -qa | grep -i arpack

arpack-3.1.3-2.el7.x86_64

arpack-devel-3.1.3-2.el7.x86_64

arpack-static-3.1.3-2.el7.x86_64

address@hidden build]$ rpm -ql qscintilla-2.8-1.el7

/usr/lib64/libqscintilla2.so.11

/usr/lib64/libqscintilla2.so.11.0

/usr/lib64/libqscintilla2.so.11.0.0

/usr/lib64/qt4/plugins/designer/libqscintillaplugin.so

/usr/share/doc/qscintilla-2.8

/usr/share/doc/qscintilla-2.8/GPL_EXCEPTION.TXT

/usr/share/doc/qscintilla-2.8/GPL_EXCEPTION_ADDENDUM.TXT

/usr/share/doc/qscintilla-2.8/LICENSE.GPL2

/usr/share/doc/qscintilla-2.8/LICENSE.GPL3

/usr/share/doc/qscintilla-2.8/NEWS

/usr/share/doc/qscintilla-2.8/README

/usr/share/qt4/translations/qscintilla_cs.qm

/usr/share/qt4/translations/qscintilla_de.qm

/usr/share/qt4/translations/qscintilla_es.qm

/usr/share/qt4/translations/qscintilla_fr.qm

/usr/share/qt4/translations/qscintilla_pt_br.qm

/usr/share/qt4/translations/qscintilla_ru.qm