Re: Octave 2.9.16 available for ftp -- build problems on freebsd/amd64

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Nov-2007, sam sirlin wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| > On  3-Nov-2007, sam sirlin wrote:
| >
| > | Somehow 2.9.15 configured ok, but 2.9.16 does not
| > | 
| > | - I seem to need -lmetis in cholmod, so I had to modify configure.
| >
| > The license of metis is not compatible with the GPL, so Octave's
| > configure script no longer looks for it.  You can either build a copy
| > of cholmod that does not link to it, or you can pass LDFLAGS to
| > configure.  You should not have to modify the configure script.
| after applying your diffs:
| 
| setenv CC gcc42
| setenv CXX g++42
| setenv F77 gfortran42
| 
| setenv CFLAGS "-fPIC"
| setenv CXXFLAGS "-fPIC"
| setenv CPPFLAGS "-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/UMFPACK 
| -I/usr/local/include/metis"
| setenv LDFLAGS "-L/usr/local/lib -lmetis -lm "
| 
| ./configure  \
|   --enable-dl --enable-shared --enable-lite-kernel
| 
| Still get barf on sed
| 
| configure: creating ./config.status
| config.status: creating Makefile
| sed: 3: ./confJtlciY/subs-1.sed: filename expected
| 
| I'll look more later...

Did you run autogen.sh after applying the patch?

jwe