Re: [OctDev] conftest.cc has problems with tetex-3.0

[R S A. M. <rsa...@sa...>]

Paul Kienzle wrote:

> The problem I believe is that texi2html on your system is leaving an 
> empty conftest directory.  If so, then this patch to configure.base 
> should fix it.  You will need to rerun ./autogen.sh before ./configure 
> after applying this change.  If it does not fix it, then try the same 
> thing in the texi2dvi and makeinfo tests.
>
> Please let us know which one works.
>
> - Paul
>
> diff -c -p -r1.41 configure.base
> *** configure.base      1 Mar 2005 16:33:25 -0000       1.41
> --- configure.base      29 May 2005 14:58:39 -0000
> *************** if [ test -n "$TEXI2HTML" ]; then
> *** 454,459 ****
> --- 454,460 ----
>                 AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
>         fi
>         rm -f conftest.*
> +       rm -rf conftest
>   fi
>
>   dnl Test for the dvipdf program
>
>
> On May 11, 2005, at 10:24 PM, R S Ananda Murthy wrote:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I am trying to build octave-forge-2004.11.16 on Slackware 10.1. I 
>> have found that ./configure recognizes all required libraries 
>> properly only when I have tetex-2.0.2 installed on the system. I 
>> removed tetex-2.0.2 and installed tetex-3.0 which is the latest 
>> version. After this, if I try ./configure, it is giving several error 
>> messages. How to correct this? Can we not make ./configure work with 
>> tetex-3.0?
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Anand
>>
>>
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How do I apply this patch? Can you please explain in a little more detail?

Anand