[Rcppoctave-user] unable to install RcppOctave (Octave 3.8 Linux)

[Renaud Gaujoux]

This is good news!
I think you can flag this as solved by pre-pending "[SOLVED]" to the subject.

The error from the develop branch is weird, but could come from a
vignette not having been properly pre-built. Will check that.

Bests,
Renaud


On 16 March 2014 10:25, kam kammon <kammon101 at hotmail.ca> wrote:
> Hi, Renaud
>
> Tonight I had a chance to upgrade to Octave 3.8.1. RcppOctave from the
> stable branch installed fine (installed with just install.packages() in R)
> so I suppose RcppOctave has been updated.
> Thanks for the great work.
>
> I am not sure how to mark the thread as solved though.
>
> Bernard
>
> P.S This is unrelated but installing from the current development version
> return "! LaTeX Error: File `biblatex.sty' not found", hope that is helpful
> ________________________________
> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 13:03:25 +0200
>
> Subject: Re: [Rcppoctave-user] unable to install RcppOctave (Octave 3.8
> Linux)
> From: renaud at mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za
> To: kammon101 at hotmail.ca
> CC: rcppoctave-user at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
>
> Hi,
>
> can you please try again (from branch 'develop'). I have pushed a fix that
> should solve the issue.
> The MPI flags were stored in CPPFLAGS, which I now append to INCFLAGS
>
> mkoctfile -p INCFLAGS
> mkoctfile -p CPPFLAGS
>
> Please flag this thread as SOLVED if this fixes the issue.
> Thanks.
>
> Bests,
> Renaud
>
>
> On 3 March 2014 10:30, Renaud Gaujoux <renaud at mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za> wrote:
>
> One more thought: have you tried installing after doing
>
>
> export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/mpi -DMPICH_SKIP_MPICXX -DOMPI_SKIP_MPICXX"
>
> ?
>
>
>
> On 3 March 2014 10:16, Renaud Gaujoux <renaud at mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za> wrote:
>
> Actually, the flags are most likely to be found in mkoctfile config.
> Currently I use the flags returned by:
>
> mkoctfile -p INCFLAGS
>
> Might be easier if you could look if those effectively appear in this
> variable or any other (do mkoctfile --help to list all variables). They have
> to come from somewhere...
> Thanks.
>
> Renaud
>
>
>
> On 3 March 2014 10:05, Renaud Gaujoux <renaud at mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za> wrote:
>
> Good.
> The MPI issue seems to be due to some compilation flags not being carried
> over when compiling RcppOctave library.
> The MPI specific flags "-I/usr/include/mpi -DMPICH_SKIP_MPICXX
> -DOMPI_SKIP_MPICXX" are correctly used when compiling the Octave modules, so
> these flags should be available from octave-config.
> Will look into it later.
> Thanks.
>
> Bests,
> Renaud
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