[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53656] Recent documentation additions don't compile when building outside source directory

[Dan Sebald]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53656>

                 Summary: Recent documentation additions don't compile when
building outside source directory
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: sebald
            Submitted on: Sun 15 Apr 2018 08:06:39 AM UTC
                Category: Documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Build Failure
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

I'm building a recent stable branch outside of the source directory and see
the following error at the last step, the documentation build:


  GEN      libgui/mk-default-qt-settings.sh
config.status: creating libgui/mk-default-qt-settings.sh-tmp
config.status: executing libgui/mk-default-qt-settings.sh commands
  TEXI2DVI doc/interpreter/octave.dvi
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: etex exited with bad status, quitting.
Makefile:27884: recipe for target 'doc/interpreter/octave.dvi' failed
make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/octave.dvi] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/sebald/octave/octave/build1'
Makefile:26472: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/sebald/octave/octave/build1'
Makefile:10177: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2


The Makefile in the build directory has the following dependency:


doc/liboctave/liboctave.pdf: doc/liboctave/liboctave.texi
$(srcdir)/doc/liboctave/version-liboctave.texi |
doc/liboctave/$(am__dirstamp)


and


doc/liboctave/liboctave.dvi: doc/liboctave/liboctave.texi
$(srcdir)/doc/liboctave/version-liboctave.texi |
doc/liboctave/$(am__dirstamp)


There may be one or two more instances where doc/liboctave/liboctave.texi is a
dependency.  Three is no prefix, so that doc/liboctave/ directory would be in
the *build* tree.  However, what I'm seeing looks like
doc/liboctave/liboctave.texi exists in the source tree.  So, similar to
$(srcdir)/doc/liboctave/version-liboctave.texi there may need to be a previx
added, i.e., $(srcdir)/doc/liboctave/liboctave.texi.





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