Re: Build a portable linux binary?

[CROZIER Richard]

On 22/02/2019 08:10, roland65 wrote:
> Mike Miller-4 wrote
>> If you or someone else is interested in doing the work, it can certainly
>> be done. I don't think the Octave maintainers are interested in doing
>> the work when there are already plenty of ways to easily install Octave
>> on GNU/Linux systems.
>
> Yes of course, there are different ways and using the package manager of the
> Linux distribution is the most common of these.
>
> However this method has drawbacks. For example, I use Ubuntu 18.04 (long
> term stable version) and Octave version is only 4.2.2. So, to get the last
> Octave 4.4.1 and apply some recent patches I need, I had to compile Octave
> and a lot of its packages and build deb packages for Ubuntu 18.04. This was
> a lot of work, but it finally worked...
>
> Now, some colleagues and friends who use another Linux distro, wanted to use
> my work and they simply couldn't. They have to do the same work of building
> these many Octave packages for their particular distribution. Most of them
> found it was too complicated and they gave up...
>


I had the same problem, ended up just making bash install scripts for
every distro I needed :-(

If you find a solution, I'd like to hear about it!

Richard
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