Re: Build failure [Re: Octave 2.9.11 available for ftp]

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 22-May-2007, David Bateman wrote:
>
> | David Bateman wrote:
> | >
> | > Can you remove the doc/interpreter/conf.texi file as it hardcodes
> | > abs_top_srcdir, etc which causes the documentation build to fail..
> | >   
> | There also appears to be a number of extra *.texi files in
> | doc/interpreter that should also be removed..
>
> In the past, we distributed the generated .texi files and the
> formatted files so that Make would not try to rebuild the formatted
> files unless something changed (I believe this is the behavior that
> the GNU coding standards specify).  If we delete these files from the 
> distribution, then the documentation will always be rebuilt.  Is this
> an acceptable change, or should we try to find a way to avoid
> rebuilding the formatted files?  I think I would still include the
> formatted files in the distribution so it would be possible to
> download the tar file and read the documentation without needing to
> build anything.
>
> jwe
>
>   
Opps, ok it seems its been a while since I built from a tar-ball. The
conf.texi file is generated however, and must go..

D.

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