Download source:
wget -P ~/Downloads http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/octave/octave-3.8.1.tar.bz2
Extract to directory:
tar -C ~/Downloads -xvf ~/Downloads/octave-3.8.1.tar.bz2
Prerequisites (Ubuntu 13.10):
sudo apt-get install gfortran debhelper automake dh-autoreconf
texinfo texlive-latex-base texlive-generic-recommended epstool transfig
pstoedit libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev gperf libhdf5-serial-dev
libblas-dev liblapack-dev libfftw3-dev texi2html less libpcre3-dev flex
libglpk-dev libsuitesparse-dev gawk ghostscript libcurl4-gnutls-dev
libqhull-dev desktop-file-utils libfltk1.3-dev libgl2ps-dev
libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libftgl-dev libfontconfig1-dev libqrupdate-dev
libarpack2-dev dh-exec libqt4-dev libqscintilla2-dev default-jdk
dpkg-dev gnuplot-x11 libbison-dev libxft-dev llvm-dev
Prerequisites (Ubuntu 12.04.4):
sudo apt-get install gfortran debhelper automake dh-autoreconf
texinfo texlive-latex-base texlive-generic-recommended epstool transfig
pstoedit libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev gperf libhdf5-serial-dev
libblas-dev liblapack-dev libfftw3-dev texi2html less libpcre3-dev flex
libglpk-dev libsuitesparse-dev gawk ghostscript libcurl4-gnutls-dev
libqhull-dev desktop-file-utils libfltk1.3-dev libgl2ps-dev
libgraphicsmagick++1-dev libftgl-dev libfontconfig1-dev libqrupdate-dev
libarpack2-dev dh-exec libqt4-dev libqscintilla2-dev default-jdk
dpkg-dev gnuplot-x11 libbison-dev libxft-dev
Note: for Ubuntu 12.04, you will have to get LLVM 3.2 Binaries and extract somewhere — you’ll manually link to these in the configure step below.
E.g.
wget -P ~/Downloads http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/clang+llvm-3.2-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-12.04.tar.gz
tar -C ~/Downloads -xvf ~/Downloads/clang+llvm-3.2-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-12.04.tar.gz
——–
cd ~/Downloads/octave-3.8.1
(Ubuntu 13.10)
./configure --enable-jit --prefix=/opt/octave3.8
(Ubuntu 12.04.4)
./configure --enable-jit --prefix=/opt/octave3.8
LLVM_CONFIG=~/Downloads/clang+llvm-3.2-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-12.04/bin/llvm-config
You may get the error:
configure: WARNING: JAVA_HOME environment variable not initialized. Auto-detection will proceed but is unreliable.
On my Ubuntu 13.10 PCs, Java was found automatically despite this error.
make
This takes about 30 minutes to compile on a Sandy Bridge i7-2600 CPU.
make check
I get:
PASS 11503
FAIL 0
XFAIL 7
sudo make install
sudo ln -s /opt/octave3.8/bin/octave /usr/local/bin/octave3.8
Now to run Octave 3.8 with GUI, at Terminal type:
octave3.8 --force-gui
You can of course make a bash alias to always add that –force-gui for you.
nano ~/.bash_aliases
and add the line
alias octave38="octave3.8 --force-gui"
Notes re: LLVM version:
Ubuntu 13.10 llvm-dev is currently LLVM 3.2. As of this comment from
mtmiller on January 2014, Octave 3.8 requires LLVM 3.2 or 3.3 to
compile:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41061#comment9
Ubuntu 12.04 defaults to LLVM 2.9, which is now too old for Octave 3.8. I would suggest considering the Pre-Built Binaries
Note: Ubuntu 14.04 has Octave 3.8 by default – yay! If this all is too hard, consider just using the Octave 3.6 PPA or upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04.
Note: As Ian notes in the comments, surf() seems to be
broken with the otherwise fast and great FLTK plotting. As Ian notes,
when you need surf(), circumvent this problem by falling back to gnuplot
by typing in Octave:
graphics_toolkit('gnuplot')
Reference (Jordi G. H.):
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Please-release-RC1-to-octave-unstable-PPA-td4659924.html
转载自： http://blogs.bu.edu/mhirsch/2013/12/compiling-octave-3-8/