[Scilab-Dev] Compiling Scilab 5.4.0 from source fails on Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 31/10/2012 21:04, Uwe Fechner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> thanks for your help. Atlas was not installed.
> 
> But I found a workaround for the configure problem (bug 10646):
> 
> cd ~/00Software/arpack-ng_3.1.2/
> sudo make uninstall
> sudo apt-get install libarpack++2-dev
> sudo apt-get remove libarpack2
> cd ~/00Software/
> cd ~/00Software/scilab-5.4.0
> make distclean
> ./configure
> make
> 
> This worked now. But this also means that I cannot
> have Octave installed at the same time. Octave depends
> on libarpack2. And as soon as I install libarpack2
> ./configure fails.
> 
> Is this a bug in the packaging of Ubuntu or in the
> ./configure script of Scilab 5.4.0?
I don't know. You should have a look to the actual error in the
config.log file to find out.

Sylvestre