Re: help building octave 3.4.3

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

Please show first he what platform do you use Linux(Ubuntu, Debian,....), Mac, 
or Windows.

> sh: makeinfo: not found

In building octave, dependency libraries and extra tools are required.
Your seem not  to have makeinfo so that you may install it.

Regards

Tatsuro

--- On Sat, 2011/12/31, yashar mehmani  wrote:

> Hi,
> I have recently been able to configure octave (with very little warnings at 
> the end) and then I compiled it using "make" and once it got done it had the 
> following errors and I was wondering what they were and what they meant and 
> what I should do or shouldn't do to NOT have any problems in the future 
> working with my octave:
> 
> sh: makeinfo: not found
> error: makeinfo failed with exit status 127!
> error: called from:
> error:   /home/yashar/Downloads/octave-3.4.3/doc/interpreter/mk_doc_cache.m 
> at line 68, column 3
> 
> make[3]: *** [doc-cache] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/yashar/Downloads/octave-3.4.3/doc/interpreter'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/yashar/Downloads/octave-3.4.3/doc'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/yashar/Downloads/octave-3.4.3'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> However if I type in "./run-octave" it works, but I obviously haven't checked 
> all the features.
> 
> The compilation took about 2hrs or 1:30hrs, if there is only ONE or FEW 
> things that I should fix/download/install etc. to get rid of this can I avoid 
> recompiling the whole thing or is that a no go?
> 
> I'd appreciate your help very much,
> Yashar
> -- 
> Yashar Mehmani
> Dept. of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering
> The University of Texas at Austin
> 1 University Station, C0300
> Austin, TX  78712-0228
>