Re: building from CVS

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-May-2000, Shaun Cloherty <address@hidden> wrote:

| Ben Sapp wrote:
| 
| > I can compile from the CVS archive on IRIX with the following commands:
| >
| > << snip >>
| >
| > I tried for the first time to do this on a Linux machine.  It will
| > compile every thing with the exception of lex.cc.
| 
| I had the same problem building from the CVS archive, issuing 'make lex.cc'
| separately appeared to succeed, but on further investigation I noticed a
| rather obscure warning relating to gperf, which wasn't installed. I
| installed gperf and all was well...... almost.
| 
| I still cannot get the 'info' files to build correctly, it seems
| 'octave.texi' in the doc/interpreter subdir doesn't exist..... even after a
| 'cvs update'. Any ideas on how to overcome this would be greatly
| appreciated.

Hmm.  It is there in the anoncvs directory.  However, there was a
point in time when it was missing.  Is is possible that you used some
option for cvs that set sticky tags or dates?  What happens if you use
cvs update -A?

BTW, it is probably better to report problems with the 2.1.x sources
to the octave-maintainers mailing list.

Thanks,

jwe



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