Re: Octave-maintainers Digest, Vol 65, Issue 14

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 07:07:48 -0700
Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jussi,
> 
> Building all of the documentation requires a fully working Texinfo
> installation.  The Octave project distributes pre-built documentation
> because Texinfo and all its dependencies are not always easy to
> install, particularly on non-UNIX platforms.  The Makefiles sensibly
> look at any of the source files to see if they have changed before
> going ahead and building the documentation.  If nothing has changed
> since the tarball was created then documentation generation can be
> skipped.  I would start your build process over in a new directory
> where you simply unpack the tarball and run ./configure and then
> make.  If that works then it is most likely that you have touched
> some files before building (such as changing the API field).  This
> isn't a problem, but you will then need the full list of build
> prerequisites that developers use.
 
The environment is obviously complete, since the build succeeds in
serial mode, and sometimes in parallel mode.

There are just some missing dependencies in the makefiles. I'd guess
the same problem is with gethelp.
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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
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