Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Resurrecting the octave build

My AWS heavy utilisation instance expired some time ago so I brought down the build server. Now I have a replacement, albeit local network only, running on a Synology NAS.

By default these boxes don’t come with a compiler installed (!?) , so I have had to install Entware, which puts everything in /opt/, nice for separation, but it means a bunch of stuff needs wiring together. This is what I have done:

  • Installed Entware
  • Installed GCC
  • Installed Mercurial
  • sudo ln -s /etc/ssl /opt/etc
  • Installed Tomcat 7 (Synology package)
  • Installed Jenkins
  • Created build in Jenkins
  • Install libtool-bin
  • Install autoconf
  • Install automake

At this point the ./bootstrap of Octave would run, but failed with a syntax error in automake – at line 3936. This is in a variable substitution function and *might* be ignorable, so I have commented out the line for the moment. This allows ./bootstrap to run, and, in turn ./configure to run.

However, ./configure now fails with a requirement for a fortran compiler, of which none are installed yet.


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