Re: MSVC/Win32: building the documentation

[Michael Goffioul]

John W. Eaton a écrit :
> | 1) the current gperf version provided by cygwin is 2.7.x. This version 
> | produces an invalid
> | header (the result type of octave_kw_hash::in_word_set is empty). Is it 
> | possible to use this
> | version, or do I really need an more recent version (which is 
> | unfortunately not available
> | by default)
>
> See the bug reported today about this.  I think it would be best to
> just install a newer version of gperf, or, since the generated file is
> not system dependent, you can copy the generated file from another
> system.
>   

I installed another version of gperf (from the gnuwin32 project) and 
everything worked
fine. I just had hoped that building octave could work out of the box 
with a standard
cygwin installation. Using MSYS requires the user the install a bunch of 
additional tools.
The effort is highly reduced with the installation procedure of cygwin.

> |     - texi2dvi gives an error I can't decode:
> | 
> | This is e-TeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> |  file:line:error style messages enabled.
> |  %&-line parsing enabled.
> | ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/etex.fmt was written by pdfetex
> | (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> | /usr/bin/texi2dvi: texinfo.tex appears to be broken, quitting.
> | 
> |       If I manually set TEX=tex before calling texi2dvi, it works fine. 
> | Do you have any
> |       idea about what's going on?
>
> Is e-TeXk from a Cygwin package?  Is your Cygwin installation up to
> date?  I think this is either an installation problem on your system,
> or a bug in the packaging.  If a little googling doesn't turn up a
> solution, then ask for help on the Cygwin list.
>   

This is regular tex installation from this weekend. I'll see if I can 
find anything on the web.
Note that this problem also occurs in doc/refcard, but in the opposite 
direction: I have
to use pdfetex instead of pdftex... Anyway, a MSYS+MiKTeX solution works 
as well,
so using cygwin shell is not high priority.

Michael.