From help-request at octave dot org Tue Jan 10 10:14:51 2006 Subject: Re: Prerequisites to 2.9.x From: David Bateman To: Shai Ayal Cc: Quentin Spencer , help@octave.org Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:10:01 +0100 Shai Ayal wrote: > thanks Quentin, I am using these SRPMS now. > now to compile octave .. > I also made available my versions of the SRPMS, including a version that depends on metis to get better sparse cholesky speed. They are on my personal site at http://www.fladenmuller.org/?page=octave&lang=EN I'd thought to make available the initial version of my mingw octave build from there in the near future. Cheers David > . > > Quentin Spencer wrote: > > Andy Adler wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, David Bateman wrote: > >> > >> > >>> In addition to the 2.1.x dependencies you need GLPK and UFSPARSE. You > >>> might also like to install METIS prior to UFSPARSE to get a faster > >>> sparse cholesky factorization, though there are licensing issues with > >>> that... I can send source RPMs of UFSPARSE and METIS, though as > they are > >>> lareg I prefer to do that offline. Tell me if you want them. > >>> > >> > >> I would prefer to see these source RPMs available to all in an > >> easy way. If they are large for the list, I would be happy to host > >> a 'compiling 2.9.x utilities' page on my website. > >> > >> > > > > For those interested in SRPMs of 2.9.x and dependencies, the > development > > tree of Fedora (soon to be Fedora Core 5) has them. They can be > found at > > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/SRPMS/ > > > . > > This includes SRPMS for ufsparse and glpk. The octave-forge SRPM > that is > > currently in there is an old one that won't build with all of the other > > stuff installed--I'll update it as soon as we have a 2.9.x-compatible > > release. Everything else should work--I use these SRPMS on my FC4 > > system. When FC5 is released in March, these will be the official > Fedora > > Extras releases. I'm hoping that 2.9.x will be considered the testing > > release (or at least close to it) by then. > > > > -Quentin > > > > -- > Shai Ayal, Ph.D. > Head of Research > BioControl Medical BCM > 3 Geron St. > Yehud 56100 > ISRAEL > Tel: + 972 3 6322 126 ext 223 > Fax: + 972 3 6322 125 > email: shaia at biocontrol dot co dot il > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. > > Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org > How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html > Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html > ------------------------------------------------------------- > -- David Bateman David dot Bateman at motorola dot com Motorola Labs - Paris +33 1 69 35 48 04 (Ph) Parc Les Algorithmes, Commune de St Aubin +33 1 69 35 77 01 (Fax) 91193 Gif-Sur-Yvette FRANCE The information contained in this communication has been classified as: [x] General Business Information [ ] Motorola Internal Use Only [ ] Motorola Confidential Proprietary ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------