Re: 3.3.90 snapshot compilation

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Jan-2011, Rik wrote:

| 
| > Even if you have been building Octave regularly from the Mercurial
| > archive, it would help if you could build from the snapshot and report
| > any problems.
| > 
| It builds and passes all tests on Kubuntu 9.04, x86_64 architecture.
| 
| However, it really does build everything including the documentation.
| Previously we had gone to some trouble to avoid unnecessarily building the
| info, html, and pdf documentation because not all locations will have full
| Texinfo installs.
| 
| The problem is that certain documentation strings are not static, but
| depend on the configuration with which Octave is compiled.  The tripping
| point for me was HDF5; I don't have the library installed so the
| documentation string for "load" changed to inform me of that.  I found 5
| instances where the documentation is not static:
| 
| HAVE_HDF5_HELP_STRING load-save.cc
| HAVE_ZLIB_HELP_STRING load-save.cc
| FFTSRC fft.cc
| FFTSRC fft2.cc
| FFTSRC fftn.cc
| 
| Perhaps it would be better to make the documentation fully static?

That's OK with me.

Should these docstrings be modified to say that the functions are only
available if the dependency is installed and Octave is configured to
use the library when Octave is built?

jwe