[OctDev] re: new release : minor makefile problem

[David B. <Dav...@mo...>]

> I just checked out the source from CVS, and the only problem I saw so far 
> was that the make file specified a file main/comm/comm.texi, but the file 
> was named comm.txi.  I renamed the texinfo file  and the build completed 
> successfully, but I notice that the help files seem screwed up.  That 
> might be something to check into.

Please don't do this!!! comms.texi is made from comms.txi, including all
of the help from all of the functions in the package in a similar manner 
to octave itself. The function that does this is the perl script mktexi 
which is also included in main/comm. You do have perl installed ?

From comms.texi the files comms.ps, comms.pdf, comms*.html and comms.info
can be made with the texi2dvi + dvips, texi2dvi + pdvpdf, texi2html and
texinfo programs. These require texinfo and tex to be installed.

I recently checked in changes to the Makefile scripts that will disable 
the building and installation of these files if you don't have the 
texinfo and tex packages installed. So I hope that if you re-checkout
octave-forge and don't change the name of comm.txi everything should
work fine...

At this point I haven't made a test to see whether perl is installed,
but if it isn't you are bound to have other problems in the admin
directory... Is it worth disabling the build of comms.texi from 
comms.txi if perl is not found? If so shoudl the test for perl be
made in configure.base or in main/comm/configure.add?

D.


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