Alright, thought it might be the case. Your advice revealed the make was
never installed with Debian Jessie on my desktop, and that was the
difference with the laptop, not sure why that is, probably chose a
different option somewhere. Anyway, installed it and Bob's my uncle!
Thanks for the help!
On Thursday, 21 May 2015 13:57:00 UTC+2, Alex wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry, my bad. I forgot "Sundials" in the path!
>
> Just try `make install` there and see what happens. Afterwards you can run
> `Pkg.build("Sundials")` from Julia.
>
> Best,
>
> Alex.
>
> On Thursday, 21 May 2015 13:51:55 UTC+2, Henri Laurie wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alex, thanks for quick response!
>>
>> I seem to have different dirrectory structure, namely
>>
>> henri@HLaurie:~$ cd .julia/v0.3/
>> henri@HLaurie:~/.julia/v0.3$ ls
>> BinDeps Compat FixedPointNumbers LaTeXStrings PyCall REQUIRE
>> Sundials
>> Color Dates Graphics METADATA PyPlot SHA
>> URIParser
>>
>> and if i search for sundials-2.5.0 I find a directory under
>> Sundials/deps/src:
>>
>> ls Sundials/deps/src/sundials-2.5.0/
>> acinclude.m4 config config.log configure.ac include
>> LICENSE README
>> bin config.h config.status doc INSTALL_NOTES
>> Makefile src
>> CMakeLists.txt config.hin configure examples libtool
>> Makefile.in sundialsTB
>>
>> which has a Makefile and config library and a configure input file, maybe
>> try to run make there?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, 21 May 2015 13:31:27 UTC+2, Alex wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Henri,
>>>
>>> This sounds a bit like you don't have `make` in your PATH? You can check
>>> if Sundials was downloaded and unpacked into
>>> ~/.julia/v0.3/src/sundials-2.5.0/. In that directory you can manually run
>>> `make install`. If that works you might be able to run
>>> `Pkg.build("Sundials")` again. If you still have problems it might be good
>>> to create an issue for Sundials.jl
>>> <https://github.com/JuliaLang/Sundials.jl/issues>.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Alex.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 21 May 2015 12:52:32 UTC+2, Henri Laurie wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for the tone, screaming loudly here despite sore throat, because
>>>>
>>>> --- I was very happy when Debian Jessie became the stable distribution,
>>>> because I could then simply install julia. I particularly want to use the
>>>> Sundials and PyPlot packages, for preference running most of it in the
>>>> IJulia notebook interface.
>>>>
>>>> --- This worked fine on my laptop (don't have it here, it's an oldish
>>>> low-spec Lenovo)
>>>>
>>>> --- So put Jessie on my desktop, installed julia. No problem. Installed
>>>> IJulia, no problem (though I don't like the inelegant shutting down, have
>>>> to kill ipython separately, it's the same on the laptop).
>>>>
>>>> --- BUT I can't install Sundials. I get (skipping a lot of messages
>>>> that all seem to indicate the process is going fine)
>>>>
>>>> """
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------
>>>> Finished SUNDIALS Configure Script
>>>> ----------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> INFO: Changing Directory to
>>>> /home/henri/.julia/v0.3/Sundials/deps/src/sundials-2.5.0
>>>> ==============================[ ERROR: Sundials
>>>> ]===============================
>>>>
>>>> could not spawn `make install`: no such file or directory (ENOENT)
>>>> while loading /home/henri/.julia/v0.3/Sundials/deps/build.jl, in
>>>> expression starting on line 37
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> """
>>>>
>>>> and skipping a short summary in the tail.
>>>>
>>>> I can't work out where the problem might be. Thought it might be that I
>>>> didn't have fortran or other compilers, so by overkill I installed
>>>> everything I could find in my Jessie distribution, deleted julia with
>>>> Pkg.rm and also by removing all of .julia in my home directory. Didn't
>>>> help. BTW this fixed PyPlot which at first would build and give no error
>>>> when running "using PyPlot" but then would say in response to a "plot"
>>>> command that pltm could not be found.
>>>>
>>>
