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 [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Installation.html#Installation More detailed instructions]
 for building from source are included in the Octave manual.
-=Build=
-After running configure simply run
- make
-Note that the compilation of Octave can take some time.
-==Troubleshooting==
-Another possible error occurs at the 'make' stage:
- /usr/include/c++/3.3.1/bits/basic_string.h:228: undefined reference to
-     `std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::_S_empty_rep_storage'
- collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
- make[2]: *** [octave] Error 1
-This has something to do with the gcc configuration. Try compiling the following program using g++:
- #include <string>
- #include <iostream>
- using namespace std;
- int main (void)
- {
-   basic_string <char>a = "thing one";
-   string b = "thing two";
-   cout << a.c_str() << endl;
-   return (a == b);
- }
-If it fails, then your compiler needs to be set-up differently (how?). On my machine I can compile that test program but still get the error making Octave -- how do we solve this? It has something to do with the shared C++ library versions, check for /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 and make sure the right version of that library is being used by gcc -- especially if you had to reinstall gcc to build the fortran support. If it still doesn't work, consider installing from the RPMs instead of compiling from source.
 =Test=