Re: building docs

[Rik]

On 12/01/2013 08:43 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 12/01/2013 11:29 AM, Rik wrote:
>
>> I think the best fix is to make sure that Octave calls the CLI version
>> whenever a non-interactive invocation of octave is used (--eval without
>> persist or the name of an m-file to run in batch mode).
>
> The --eval code or the m-file could call functions that display graphics
> or UI objects.  It might work to run octave-cli, but in the future when
> we are using Qt widgets for graphics and UI objects you'll need to have
> the version of Octave linked with the GUI libraries.
>
I wasn't precise enough.  I only meant that the GUI itself should not be
invoked.  The equivalent of --no-gui is both necessary and sufficient.

--Rik