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Re: Building Octave 4.4.1 on Centos 7
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Mike Miller |
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Re: Building Octave 4.4.1 on Centos 7 |
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Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:06:32 -0700 |
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 15:59:35 +0000, Calvin Dodge wrote:
> I have a couple of questions.
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> The Octave manual says "use a recent compiler". Is GCC 4.8.5 deemed
> suitable for Octave and packages? I've built Octave with it, but am
> having trouble with some packages.
Yes, GCC 4.8 is the oldest GCC that can build current Octave releases.
You built Octave, so the compiler is suitable.
> For example, the "mpi" package fails. When I try building it
> manually, it has conflicts with the Octave header files. Given that
> the most recent mpi package is significantly older than the 4.4.1
> release, does this indicate that the mpi package hasn't been updated
> as Octave was, and requires an older release, like 3.8.2?
The mpi package is now being developed outside of Octave Forge, so you
can't install it with "pkg install -forge" now. Please take a look at
the latest package release announcement and try installing it again.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-octave/2019-03/msg00072.html
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mike
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