From: David B. <Dav...@mo...> - 2003-05-20 15:53:34
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> 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. -- David Bateman Dav...@mo... Motorola CRM +33 1 69 35 25 00 (Ph) Espace Technologique, Commune de St Aubin +33 1 69 35 25 01 (Fax) 91193 Gif-Sur-Yvette FRANCE The information contained in this communication has been classified as: [x] General Business Information [ ] Motorola Internal Use Only [ ] Motorola Confidential Proprietary |
From: Paul K. <pki...@us...> - 2003-05-21 02:48:46
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David Bateman wrote: >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? > I'm inclined to assume perl for now, but minimize its use. The only systems that won't have perl readily available are probably windows systems, and most of those folks will be using prebuilt octave/octave-forge. - Paul BTW, thanks for the makefile updates. |
From: David B. <Dav...@mo...> - 2003-05-21 07:50:01
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According to Paul Kienzle <pki...@us...> (on 05/21/03): > David Bateman wrote: > > >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? > > > I'm inclined to assume perl for now, but minimize its use. > The only systems that won't have perl readily available > are probably windows systems, and most of those folks > will be using prebuilt octave/octave-forge. In this case a test for perl should be added to configure.base, with a configure error resulting in its absence..... Cheers David -- David Bateman Dav...@mo... Motorola CRM +33 1 69 35 25 00 (Ph) Espace Technologique, Commune de St Aubin +33 1 69 35 25 01 (Fax) 91193 Gif-Sur-Yvette FRANCE The information contained in this communication has been classified as: [x] General Business Information [ ] Motorola Internal Use Only [ ] Motorola Confidential Proprietary |
From: Chris C. <ch...@ch...> - 2003-05-21 16:42:20
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On Tue May 20 2003 10:53 am, David Bateman wrote: > Please don't do this!!! comms.texi is made from comms.txi > texi2html and texinfo programs. These require texinfo and tex to be > installed. I had managed to get tex installed without texinfo. The build failed out with an obscure error message ("error 141"), but after I checked all the requirements you listed I realized that texinfo was missing. Everything built OK after installing texinfo. thanks, Chris Caudle |