GNU Octave Admin

Introduction

Standard UNIX build, but depends on Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK) for native graphical plotting. We manually maintain /util/fltk/ for Octave.

Config warns about ~8 other missing libraries and loss of functionality. If this turns out to be a problem, we can rebuild with those libraries. They're probably not available via yum, so we'll need to manage them manually in /util, too. 


configure:64165: WARNING: UMFPACK not found.  This will result in some lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
configure:64171: WARNING: qrupdate not found.  The QR & Cholesky updating functions will be slow.
configure:64177: WARNING: AMD library not found.  This will result in some lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
configure:64183: WARNING: COLAMD library not found.  This will result in some lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
configure:64189: WARNING: CCOLAMD library not found.  This will result in some lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
configure:64195: WARNING: CHOLMOD library not found.  This will result in some lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
configure:64201: WARNING: CXSparse library not found.  This will result in some lack of functionality for sparse matrices.
configure:64219: WARNING: GLPK library not found.  The glpk function for solving linear programs will be disabled.
configure:64225: WARNING: GraphicsMagick++ library not found.  The imread function for reading image files will not be fully functional.
configure:64231: WARNING: HDF5 library not found.  Octave will not be able to save or load HDF5 data files.
configure:64249: WARNING: Qhull library not found -- this will result in loss of functionality of some geometry functions.

Procedure

Install FLTK


[lethe] % setenv CFLAGS "-fPIC"
[lethe] % setenv CXXFLAGS "-fPIC"
[lethe] fltk-1.3.1% ./configure --prefix=/util/fltk-1.3.1
[lethe] fltk-1.3.1% make
[lethe] fltk-1.3.1% sudo make install clean

Install Gnu Octave


[lethe] % setenv CFLAGS "-fPIC"
[lethe] % setenv CXXFLAGS "-fPIC"
[lethe] octave-3.6.3% ./configure --prefix=/util/octave-3.6.3 --with-fltk-prefix=/util/fltk --without-curl --disable-docs
[lethe] octave-3.6.3% make
[lethe] octave-3.6.3% make check
[lethe] octave-3.6.3% sudo make install

Notes

  1. Needed to update curl to the latest to get past an Octave make error.
  2. Nope. Updated curl fails. Now configuring without curl.
  3. Errors building doc. Updating TeX didn't work. Internet community suggests the only solution is to --disable-docs.

References

  1. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/
  2. http://www.fltk.org/index.php