Problem building Octave

[Nir Krakauer]

On an Ubuntu 19.10 machine and following the instructions in [1] with
the dev version, `make -j2` exits with the error

  MAKEINFO ../doc/interpreter/octave.info
  TEXI2DVI doc/interpreter/octave.dvi
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: etex exited with bad status, quitting.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:31084: doc/interpreter/octave.dvi] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: Leaving directory '~/octave/.build'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:27418: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '~/octave/.build'
make: *** [Makefile:11051: all] Error 2

Any hints as to what could be the problem?



[1] https://wiki.octave.org/Building