From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Dec  8 01:10:22 1999
Subject: Compiling Octave -- Necessary Terminal Libraries?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Matthew W. Roberts" <matt at lehi dot tamu dot edu>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 01:10:43 -0600 (CST)

On 20-Nov-1999, Matthew W. Roberts <matt at lehi dot tamu dot edu> wrote:

| I recently downloaded the latest source for Octave (octave-2.1.21)
| and tried to compile.  During configuration I got the following
| message:
| 
| configure: warning: I couldn't find -ltermcap, -lterminfo,
| 	-lncurses, -lcurses, or -ltermlib!
| 
| So, do I need all of these?  Or just some of them.  My disk space
| is somewhat tight so I don't want to install more development
| libraries than I need.  This information would be a good to add
| to the FAQ section that discusses requirements to compile octave.

You need at least one.

| Also, I was impressed by the number of new functions (in control,
| anyway) for the development version.  Is octave going to be launched
| as a release version anytime soon?

A new stable release will be made when it is ready.  That's about as
good a guess as I can make.  Years of experience have led me to avoid
trying to make predictions about how long it takes to write software.

jwe



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