Re: documentation build issues with 3.3.91

[John W. Eaton]

On  4-Feb-2011, Rik wrote:

| > John,
| > building the cygwin package I noticed:
| > 
| > 1) building in a separate dir, documentation fails as
| >     contributors.texi is expected in the build dir, but it is only
| > available in the src tree.
| > 
| > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| > make -C doc/interpreter ../../AUTHORS
| > make[3]: Entering directory
| > `/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.91-1/build/doc/interpreter'
| > rm -f AUTHORS
| > /bin/sh 
/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.91-1/src/octave-3.3.91/build-aux/missing
| > --run makeinfo -D AUTHORSONLY \
| >           --no-validate --no-headers --no-split --output AUTHORS 
preface.texi
| > preface.texi:82: @include `contributors.texi': No such file or directory.
| > makeinfo: Removing output file `AUTHORS' due to errors; use --force to 
preserve.
| > make[3]: [../../AUTHORS] Error 1 (ignored)
| > mv AUTHORS ../../AUTHORS
| > mv: cannot stat `AUTHORS': No such file or directory
| > make[3]: *** [../../AUTHORS] Error 1
| > ----------------------------------------------------------
| > 
| > 
| > 2) The date on the first page of the octave.pdf is wrong :-)
| >     Edition 3 for Octave version 3.3.91, July 2007
| > 
| > 3) octave.info is updated/modified in the src tree
| Yes.  I just noticed all three as well while working on the icons.  I'll
| fix these.

With your latest changes and after running autogen.sh and configure,
I'm seeing

  make[3]: Entering directory `/scratch/jwe/build/octave/doc/icons'
  make[3]: *** No rule to make target `octave-logo.ico', needed by `all-am'.  
Stop.

jwe