Re: make dist

[Rik]

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> Subject:
> Make dist
> From:
> Rob Vermaas <address@hidden>
> Date:
> Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:20:09 +0200
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> Hi,
> I am trying to set up continuous integration builds (more info at
> http://www.gnu.org/software/devel.html#Hydra) for Octave. However
> while running 'make dist' we get the following errors:
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> building doc-cache
> ../../run-octave -f -q -H ./mk_doc_cache.m doc-cache
> ../../scripts/DOCSTRINGS ../../src/DOCSTRINGS || { rm -f doc-cache;
> exit 1; }
> error: regexprep: Invalid content of \{\} in pattern (@seealso *{([^}]*)})
> error: called from:
> error: 
> /tmp/nix-build-gaxavwsxrhhk4x4q24w03zbp4p5w1km7-octave-tarball-0pre1646bd8e3735.drv-0/hg-archive/doc/interpreter/mk_doc_cache.m
> at line 48, column 6
> make[3]: *** [doc-cache] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/tmp/nix-build-gaxavwsxrhhk4x4q24w03zbp4p5w1km7-octave-tarball-0pre1646bd8e3735.drv-0/hg-archive/doc/interpreter'
> 
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> Complete log is available at: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/504326
> 
> Do you have any idea what is causing this and how to fix it?
Do you have the library pcre (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions)
installed?  The particular line, 48, which is failing has been in place
since February, 2009 so this is not a new code addition.

I also checked 'make dist' and it works for my machine on a current tip
(10832:1b2fcd122c6a).

--Rik