run-octave doesn't get generated, other problems with making documentation

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Sep-2010, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

| At changeset 10992:88687577519f, besides also running into the texinfo
| problem related to egrep, I have a weird thing where run-octave
| doesn't get generated, resulting in this:
| 
|      Making all in interpreter
|      make[3]: Entering directory
| `/home/jordi/coding/build-vcs/octave/doc/interpreter'
|      ../../run-octave -f -q -H
| /home/jordi/coding/vcs/octave/doc/interpreter/mk_doc_cache.m doc-cache
| ../../scripts/DOCSTRINGS ../../src/DOCSTRINGS || { rm -f doc-cache;
| exit 1; }
|      /bin/sh: ../../run-octave: No such file or directory
| 
| If I do copy run-octave.in and fill in the variable names it needs, I get 
this:
| 
|      Making all in interpreter
|      make[3]: Entering directory
| `/home/jordi/coding/build-vcs/octave/doc/interpreter'
|      ../../run-octave -f -q -H
| /home/jordi/coding/vcs/octave/doc/interpreter/mk_doc_cache.m doc-cache
| ../../scripts/DOCSTRINGS ../../src/DOCSTRINGS || { rm -f doc-cache;
| exit 1; }
| 
|      ../../run-octave -f -q -H -p
| /home/jordi/coding/vcs/octave/doc/interpreter --eval "geometryimages
| ('voronoi', 'eps');"
|      error: invalid value = custom
|      error: set: invalid value for radio property "papertype" (value = custom)
|      error: error setting default property papersize
|      error: __go_figure__: failed to create figure handle
|      error: called from:
|      error:   /home/jordi/coding/vcs/octave//scripts/plot/figure.m at
| line 67, column 9
|      error:   /home/jordi/coding/vcs/octave/doc/interpreter/geometryimages.m
| at line 127, column 5
|      error:   /home/jordi/coding/vcs/octave/doc/interpreter/geometryimages.m
| at line 21, column 3
| 
|      make[3]: *** [voronoi.eps] Error 1
| 
| Ideas? Can anyone reproduce this? I'm doing an out-of-source build, as
| you can glean from above, in case this matters.

I checked in a change that should fix the problem with run-octave not
being built early enough to build the figures in the doc/interpreter
directory.

jwe