problem with makeinfo?

[Daniel Calderone]

I am trying to install octave, and get the error below from the make
command.  I searched the internet and found other people having this
problem, and the solution always seems to be 'install makeinfo'.  But
I already have it installed.  I have GNU make, and "which makeinfo"
returns this:

/usr/local/bin/makeinfo

And this is certainly in my $PATH.  What to do?

WARNING: `makeinfo' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
         you modified a `.texi' or `.texinfo' file, or any other file
         indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.  The spurious
         call might also be the consequence of using a buggy `make' (AIX,
         DU, IRIX).  You might want to install the `Texinfo' package or
         the `GNU make' package.  Grab either from any GNU archive site.

         You may also need `makeinfo' if you obtained this package from the CVS
         archive because files that can be automatically generated are not
         considered source files and are not checked in to the CVS archive.

         You may also need `makeinfo' if you ran make maintainer-clean and
         removed files that can be automatically generated but that are
         normally distributed as part of the package for convenience.
make[3]: [../../INSTALL.OCTAVE] Error 1 (ignored)
mv INSTALL ../../INSTALL.OCTAVE
mv: cannot stat `INSTALL': No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [../../INSTALL.OCTAVE] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/Dan/Documents/octave-3.0.3/doc/interpreter'
make[2]: *** [../INSTALL.OCTAVE] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Dan/Documents/octave-3.0.3/doc'
make[1]: *** [INSTALL.OCTAVE] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Dan/Documents/octave-3.0.3'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Thanks,
Dan