Re: [OctDev] admin/mk{doc,texi} and multiple Octave versions.

[<pki...@us...>]

On 6 Nov 2003 at 15:05, Lute Kamstra wrote:

> Dear octave-forge hackers,
> 
> I just tried to get CVS HEAD from octave forge installed in
> conjunctions with Octave's CVS HEAD.  I encountered two minor
> problems:
> 
> 1. admin/mk{doc,texi} do not have their execute bit set.  I had to do
>    this by hand to convince the Makefiles to build the docs.
> 
> 2. I have several versions of Octave in my path.  configure picks the
>    first one it encounters, which was not the right one.  I convinced
>    the configure script to pick the right one with:
> 
>      ./configure OCTAVE=/the/right/octave
> 
>    Maybe this var should be mentioned in INSTALL?

I believe you will also need to set MKOCTFILE=/the/right/mkoctfile

Also, I found the CVS was unable to build because Makeconf is not
being updated correctly.  I will post this change shortly.

Paul Kienzle
pki...@us...