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authorKyle Guinn <elyk03@gmail.com>2014-01-12 01:41:59 -0600
committerRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2014-01-31 00:54:26 -0600
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academic/octave: Updated for version 3.8.0.
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@@ -4,10 +4,20 @@ linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical
experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may
also be used as a batch-oriented language.
-These optional dependencies will be used if found:
-AMD, CAMD, COLAMD, CCOLAMD, CHOLMOD, UMFPACK, CXSparse, glpk,
-arpack, qrupdate, qhull, HDF5, fltk, ftgl, and GraphicsMagick
+These optional dependencies will be used if found. See INSTALL.OCTAVE (in the
+Octave source) for a description of what each dependency offers.
-ImageMagick (part of Slackware) will be used instead of GraphicsMagick by
-default. To override this, use:
-WITH_MAGICK=GraphicsMagick ./octave.SlackBuild
+AMD, CAMD, COLAMD, CCOLAMD, CHOLMOD, UMFPACK, CXSparse, glpk, arpack-ng,
+qrupdate, qhull, HDF5, fltk, ftgl, gl2ps, jdk, GraphicsMagick
+
+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.
+
+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
+Octave developers).