Re: cloned source, help just displaying copyright text?

[John W. Eaton]

On 2/12/20 1:52 PM, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
> haven't played with the source in a little while, but did something 
> change in the docstrings that's preventing help from rendering the full 
> docstring? running help on any command in the source tree displays only 
> the copyright block rather than the function help. I do see that there 
> were changes to the copyright portion of the docstring.  Deleting the 
> first two comment lines (all the #### ) returns the behavior to normal.
>
> e.g.:

It works for me.  Did you start with a completely fresh build tree?

Are you trying to use an older version of Octave to get help from the 
current source .m files?  That's not expected to work.

jwe