From help-request at octave dot org Fri Aug 20 11:15:10 2004
Subject: Re: SV: octave make problem on Unix
From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
To: help at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:09:24 -0600

Peter J. Acklam wrote:
> Malik Usman [EQTY] [usman dot malik at citigroup dot com] wrote.
> 
> 
>>I am trying to compile octave-2.1.57 on unix with solaris 5.8 [...]
> 
> 
> Which "make" are you using?
> 
> My experience is that you can not be build octave with /usr/ccs/bin/make
> or /usr/xpg4/bin/make. You must use GNU make. GNU make is not a part
> of Solaris, but if you installed the software on the Solaris Supplement CD,
> you will find "make" as /opt/sfw/bin/make.
> 
...

In my experience you also need gnu sed and perl > 5.8 (if you want to build
octave-forge)...

> Peter

Dmitri.



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