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Files built but never installed
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Files built but never installed |
Date: |
Mon, 10 May 2004 12:15:16 -0500 |
On 10-May-2004, Peter J. Acklam <address@hidden> wrote:
| While building Octave on Solaris 9 I got a message telling that
| "makeinfo" and "tex" was not found, so I installed TeTeX and
| rebuilt Octave. I created lists of the files made during the
| various steps and realized that with TeX installed, the following
| files were made during the "make" step, however they were not
| installed during "make install". Why? Here are the files:
|
| /var/tmp/octave-2.1.57/doc/interpreter/octave.dvi
| /var/tmp/octave-2.1.57/doc/interpreter/octave.ps
| /var/tmp/octave-2.1.57/doc/liboctave/liboctave.dvi
| /var/tmp/octave-2.1.57/doc/liboctave/liboctave.ps
|
| My build dir was (obviously) "/var/tmp/octave-2.1.57". Is there
| any reason why these files are not installed? If the files aren't
| installed, why build them in the first place?
So you can view or print them. Where would you have them installed?
I don't think there is any standard location for installing documents
like this.
| The steps I used for building Octave were
|
| ./configure LDFLAGS=-R/usr/local/lib --disable-readline
| make
| make check
| make install
If you don't change the install prefix, the documentation should not
have to be rebuilt. At least that is the idea. Perhaps there is a
bug in the build system somewhere, or there are other variables that
are substituted into the documentation that I've now forgotten about.
jwe