Re: [Plplot-devel] Error when extracting Octave docs from api.xml

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On Sunday 09 March 2003 03:48, Joao Cardoso wrote:
| On Sunday 09 March 2003 02:44, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
|
| Thanks Alan for trying to help.
|
| But I don't think that is the reason. I have an old plplot build tree
| and in that build tree I was able to generated the Octave online
| docs, while now I can't do it anymore.
|
| Then I remembered that I had done a software "online update" recently
| (the equivalent to apt-get), two days ago, on both my office and home
| computer, and I tried to undo it, but I was not yet successfull.
|
| So, it looks like after all that the fault is in my system. 

After some effort I was not able to undo what "online update" did, and 
so I will not be able to build the Octave online docs. This means that 
I will do "make -i" and errors will be more difficult to diagnose, so 
be suspicious of my next bug reports -- I will be carefull, however.

When I worked with a unix system without rpms, and I needed to compile 
everything from source, even X11 or Motif, this has never happened. The 
"No Free Lunch" theorem strikes again :)

Joao