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The -v option is not required but provides extra information about what was pulled and updated. | The -v option is not required but provides extra information about what was pulled and updated. | ||
If you decide to use the development sources from the Mercurial archive, please read the file etc/HACKING that is available with the source files. | If you decide to use the development sources from the Mercurial archive, please read the file [http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/tip/etc/HACKING etc/HACKING] that is available with the source files. | ||
====Build tools==== | ====Build tools==== | ||
The following is lifted from the manual ([http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Build-Tools.html G.1.2]) and [http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/tip/etc/HACKING etc/HACKING] the 2013-06-14, if the current date is much different and your build fails because of missing requirements, please follow the links and see if they have been updated. | |||
The following tools are required: | |||
C++, C, and Fortran compilers | |||
The Octave sources are primarily written in C++, but some portions are also written in C and Fortran. The Octave sources are intended to be portable. Recent versions of the GNU compiler collection (GCC) should work (http://gcc.gnu.org). If you use GCC, you should avoid mixing versions. For example, be sure that you are not using the obsolete g77 Fortran compiler with modern versions of gcc and g++. | |||
GNU Make | |||
Tool for building software (http://www.gnu.org/software/make). Octave's build system requires GNU Make. Other versions of Make will not work. Fortunately, GNU Make is highly portable and easy to install. | |||
AWK, sed, and other Unix utilities | |||
Basic Unix system utilities are required for building Octave. All will be available with any modern Unix system and also on Windows with either Cygwin or MinGW and MSYS. | |||
Additionally, the following tools may be needed: | |||
Bison | |||
Parser generator (http://www.gnu.org/software/bison). You will need Bison if you modify the oct-parse.yy source file or if you delete the files that are generated from it. | |||
Flex | |||
Lexer analyzer (http://www.gnu.org/software/flex). You will need Flex if you modify the lex.ll source file or if you delete the files that are generated from it. | |||
Autoconf | |||
Package for software configuration (http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf). Autoconf is required if you modify Octave's configure.ac file or other files that it requires. | |||
Automake | |||
Package for Makefile generation (http://www.gnu.org/software/automake). Automake is required if you modify Octave's Makefile.am files or other files that they depend on. | |||
Libtool | |||
Package for building software libraries (http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool). Libtool is required by Automake. | |||
===Run the bootstrap script=== | ===Run the bootstrap script=== | ||