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| author |   Kyle Guinn | 2019-01-03 06:00:32 +0100 |
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| committer |   Willy Sudiarto Raharjo | 2019-01-05 01:49:30 +0100 |
| commit | cd8a3a547c175f53581d5c87fbd311b907abf2c1 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c2fa7ab74b390cde2640eada1a38b94f8616c32 /academic/octave/README | |
| parent | 26de090fccb8ce22658f61671081e42979b779ad (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-cd8a3a547c175f53581d5c87fbd311b907abf2c1.tar.gz | |
academic/octave: Updated for version 4.4.1.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Guinn <elyk03@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/academic/octave/README b/academic/octave/README index 4738a352f2..2a6c9cc1de 100644 --- a/academic/octave/README +++ b/academic/octave/README @@ -17,15 +17,21 @@ are not configured to detect/use alternate implementations. These optional dependencies will be used if found (see INSTALL.OCTAVE, in the Octave source, for a description of what each dependency offers): amd, camd, colamd, ccolamd, cholmod, umfpack, cxsparse, glpk, arpack-ng, -qrupdate, qhull, hdf5, fltk, ftgl, gl2ps, jdk, GraphicsMagick, portaudio. +qrupdate, sundials, qhull, hdf5, fltk, ftgl, gl2ps, jdk, GraphicsMagick, +portaudio. + +Octave can use either Qt4 or Qt5, and it will select Qt5 if both are +installed. You can force it to use a particular version by passing QT=4 or +QT=5 to the script. If Qt5 is selected and it does not find a Qt5 version of +QScintilla, then the editor window in the GUI will be disabled. If you need +the editor window and have both Qt versions installed, force it to use Qt4. Octave can use ImageMagick (part of Slackware) or GraphicsMagick (available -from SBo) for some functionality. ImageMagick 6.8.6-10 from Slackware 14.1 -appears to be incompatible (build failure). Octave searches for -GraphicsMagick by default, and previous versions of this script changed the -default to ImageMagick to avoid the need for yet another dependency. If you -need this functionality, or if Octave decides to compile against ImageMagick -for some reason, try installing GraphicsMagick. +from SBo) for image-reading functionality. If both are installed, +GraphicsMagick will be selected by default, since ImageMagick is not +well-supported by the Octave developers. If you have problems with +ImageMagick, try rebuilding Octave with GraphicsMagick, or pass MAGICK="" to +the script. If you have arpack installed and the configure script segfaults when trying to detect arpack, try switching to arpack-ng (which is partly maintained by |