Re: Trying to compile Octave on RHEL 7.3

[Michael Metts]

my build finished.  the command window is a sea of black dots.  typing is 
invisible in the command window.  strange.  i’ll switch to 4.2.1.

> On Mar 2, 2017, at 9:51 AM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 09:45:31 -0800, Michael Metts wrote:
>> ha!  awesome.  i’m down to just the Sundials issue now.  so, Mike,
>> should i switch to the build you recommended or is it okay
>> (reasonable) to continue with the dev build from the hg repo?
> 
> I would say that unless you have a reason to use the dev version, you
> should be using 4.2.1. And coincidentally the sundials support is not in
> the 4.2 branch, so that warning will go away.
> 
> If you want to volunteer some time to help the devs figure out why the
> sundials detection is not working on your system, I'm sure it would be
> appreciated, but if you just want a working Octave, go with 4.2.1.
> 
> -- 
> mike