Octave

Download Source:	ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/octave-3.2.2.tar.bz2

Introduction to Octave

GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It is a command line interface and solves linear and nonlinear problems numerically. Octave cna be used to perform other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab.

Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/octave.html

Dependencies

Optional

• FFTW
• GNUPlot
• HDF5
• BLAS
• LAPACK
• gperf

Configuration Information

The following are some options that you may want to pass to the configure script:

--with-f77: Use f77 to compile Fortran subroutines.

--without-hdf5: Don't use HDF5 files.

--without-fftw: Use included fftpack instead of installed fftw.

--with-blas=<lib>: Use the BLAS library found at <lib>.

--with-lapack=<lib>: Use the LAPACK library found at <lib>.

--enable-shared: Enables building the shared library. This requires shared BLAS and LAPACK libraries if you're using them as well.

Non-Multilib

Compile the Octave package:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-static --enable-shared &&
make

Install Octave:

make install

Install the Octave documentation. The files in the doc/refcard directory are two-page Octave command reference cards. The others are full reference manuals.

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/ &&
cp -v doc/refcard/*.{ps,pdf} /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/ &&
cp -v doc/interpreter/*.{ps,pdf} /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/ &&
cp -v doc/liboctave/*.{ps,pdf} /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/

Multilib

32Bit

Compile the Octave package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-static --enable-shared &&
make

Install Octave:

make install &&
mv -v /usr/bin/octave{,-32}

N32

Compile the Octave package:

CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib32 \
--enable-static --enable-shared &&
make

Install Octave:

make install &&
mv -v /usr/bin/octave{,-n32}

64Bit

Compile the Octave package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 \
--enable-static --enable-shared &&
make

Install Octave:

make install &&
mv -v /usr/bin/octave{,-64} &&
ln -sfv multiarch_wrapper /usr/bin/octave

Install the Octave documentation. The files in the doc/refcard directory are two-page Octave command reference cards. The others are full reference manuals.

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/ &&
cp -v doc/refcard/*.{ps,pdf} /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/ &&
cp -v doc/interpreter/*.{ps,pdf} /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/ &&
cp -v doc/liboctave/*.{ps,pdf} /usr/share/doc/octave-3.2.2/

Contents

Installed Directories:	/usr/lib/octave-3.2.2, /usr/include/octave-3.2.2
Installed Programs:	octave-bug, octave-config, octave
Installed Libraries:	librcruft.{a,so}, liboctave.{a,so}, liboctinterp.{a,so}

Short Description

octave-bug:	Creates a bug report and mails it to the bug-octave mailing list.
octave-config	Reports some configuration values for Octave.
Octave	The binary of interest.