[OctDev] Problems with comm docs and history on OS X

[Per P. <per...@ma...>]

Hi,
I'm forwarding parts of a discussion from help-octave since I think 
someone might be able to shed some lights on two issues:
i) In current CVS, does main/comm check for presence of tex?
ii) Could the problem with command history be related to octave-forge 
in any way?

/Per
>
>>>
>>>> The building of the octave-forge routines was not smooth, but
>>>> the "make install" seemed to go OK.
>>>
>>> It would help if you elaborated on "not smooth".
>>
>> The ./configure gave a long list of NOINSTALLS, but I went ahead 
>> anyway.
>> The "make" file exited complaining
>>
>> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: tex: command not found
>> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: tex exited with bad status, quitting.
>> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: see comms.log for errors.
>> make[2]: *** [comms.dvi] Error 1
>> rm comms.texi
>> make[1]: *** [comm/] Error 2
>> make: *** [main/] Error 2
>>
>> I don't have tex (as in LaTex?) on my machine and I thought it was 
>> related
>> only to help file construction, so I went ahead with "sudo make 
>> install"
>> anyway. I could send a copy of the .log file if it would help.
>
> OK, you've gotten a partial install then, I suppose. This is the 
> source of your problems.
>
> Tex is a build-time dependency and doesn't come with the octave binary 
> install. So, if you want to install octave-forge-2003.06.02 you need 
> (la)tex.
> I seem to recall some discussion about this in the past. If latex is a 
> dependency, it should be checked for (makeinfo, texi2dvi and texi2html 
> are present by default but not dvips and dvipdf).
>
> Your quick'n dirty fix is to remove $(DOCS) from target 'all' in line 
> 38 of main/comm/Makefile and build/install.
>
>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> About the time of the octave-forge installation, my history of
>>>> commands in
>>>> .octave_hist stopped being updated.
>>>
>>> No idea. What is the value of variables 'history_file' and
>>> 'saving_history'?
>>>
>
> [snip]
>
> Sorry, no idea. I don't think any part of octave-forge messes with the 
> history stuff.
>