[Gmsh] OpenCascade 6.3.0 + Ubuntu 8.10 compile

[William Hunter]

Hi Gmsh users;

Just to let those know who'd like to compile Gmsh 2.3.0 with
OpenCascade support on ubuntu 8.10, the instructions in README.occ is
correct except that the following didn't work for me, maybe understood
incorrectly (copied from README.occ):

  and copy config.h and the <OpenCascade dir>/ros/inc/ subdirectory
  to /usr/local/opencascade (This is the same as a doing a partial
  'make install')

Perhaps (?) it should be

  and copy the <OpenCascade dir>/ros/inc subdirectory
  to /usr/local/opencascade/ Then copy config.h to
  /usr/local/opencascade/inc/

Anyway, the above worked for me. You should therefore only have
bin, inc and lib
directories in usr/local/opencascade, with config.h in ...cascade/inc

--

Before you compile Gmsh, do

$ sudo apt-get build-dep gmsh

and then follow the rest of the instructions in README.occ Compiling
from source will also get rid of the ugly fonts under Ubuntu if you
use the downloaded binary.

Cheers,
William