RE: Trying to compile Octave on RHEL 7.3

[Michael L. Metts]

Thanks, Mike.  My log is attached.  I'll switch to the release version you 
mentioned.  I'll also try what Ozzy mentions if the ARPACK thing comes up with 
that as well.  My log is attached. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Miller [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 9:55 PM
To: Michael L. Metts <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Trying to compile Octave on RHEL 7.3

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 21:20:24 -0800, Michael L. Metts wrote:
> Thanks for getting back to me, Mike.  I'm definitely hoping to build 
> and run Octave 4 and not the stuff that's in EPEL.  I understand that 
> RHEL and Fedora have different bars (hurdles?) for what they will 
> build and include ... although I can't understand why in this case 
> since Octave 4 is more than a year old so it seems like it really 
> should be in EPEL.

Yes but RHEL 7 is almost 3 years old. If you want a stable OS, that implies 
that you won't get the latest versions of things.

> Yes, I am using whatever's in the hg repo.  Is that appropriate for 
> what I'm doing?  What I'm doing, btw, is trying to get a clean stable 
> Octave 4 running on RHEL 7.3 that doesn't have any broken features.

I would recommend that you try to get the latest released version working, 
which is 4.2.1, from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/.

> The ARPACK issue seems pretty bad to me.  Bad enough to not go 
> forward.  The ARPACK and QScintilla issues have been frustrating since
> they're there but it can't find them or doesn't like them.   
> 
> Thanks for mentioning the log.  My software building skills are 
> probably not that best.  I am motivated, though, we (at my firm) 
> aren't that keen on the cost of Matlab.  I've used earlier versions of 
> Octave on other platforms and really would like to get this going.  I 
> appreciate the help.

Yes, check config.log, forward a compressed copy of the log file if you need 
help finding the relevant details. There should be no problem with the versions 
of arpack and qscintilla that you have installed.

--
mike

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