Compile octave

Latest version of octave needs texinfo and newer version of gcc.

1.  Install gcc 4.7.1. gcc needs additional 3 components which have to be downloaded separatedly:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-4.3.2.tar.gz
http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-2.4.2/mpfr-2.4.2.tar.gz

http://www.multiprecision.org/mpc/download/mpc-0.8.1.tar.gz

unzip and copy them to gmp mpfr and mpc or gcc-4.7.1 source dir

mkdir ~/gcc-4.7.1

cd ~/gcc-4.7.1

~/downloads/gcc-4.7.1/configure  --enable-languages=all

make

sudo make install

2. Install texinfo

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.tar.gz

./configure

make

sudo make install

3. Install blas and lapack. On my environment, this is done by:

yum install blas

yum install lapack

And for me, I have to manually create a sym link libblas.so and liblapack.so as octave configuration cannot find the versioned so.

sudo ln -s libblas.so.3.0.3 /usr/lib64/libblas.so

sudo ln -s liblapack.so.3.0.3 /usr/lib64/liblapack.so

4. Install gnuplot-4.4

5. Install octave

cd octave-3.6.2

LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib64 LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib64 ./configure --without-curl

LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib64 make -j 8

You may need to use different directories other than /usr/local/lib64 depending on where your blas/lapack/gfortran  libraries are located. If error happens, look at config.log to get more detail.