Re: Help in Building octave on ubuntu 12.04

[Abhinav Tripathi]

> I have been no longer using Ubunutu 12.04.
> However, gcc-4.6 is rather old to compile octave.
>
> I have forgotten the apt-get command but I have installed gcc-4.8 (gcc-4.8, g++-4.8 and gfortran-4.8)
> Please search the way bu Google.

Thanks. I installed gcc4.8 and the build has atleast gone beyond previous point.

> At configure
> CC='gcc-4.8' \
> CXX='g++-4.8' \
> F77='gfortran-4.8' \
> ./configure (other option)
>
> If you want to build with the osmesa, the osmesa on ubuntu 12.04 is too old to build with octave-4.0.x.
>
> I have built the osmesa using instruction
> http://wiki.octave.org/OSMesa

I could not build osmesa using those steps. Did some changes but got stuck at some GLAPI error.
I used - -without-OSMesa instead.

Abhinav