[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #48172] cannot build from within custom build directory

[Muhali]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48172>

                 Summary: cannot build from within custom build directory
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: muhali
            Submitted on: Wed 08 Jun 2016 03:52:51 AM PDT
                Category: Configuration and Build System
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

when trying to build octave from the current sources, from within a
subdirectory 'build' and with docs enabled, the process stops with

  TEXI2PDF doc/interpreter/octave.pdf
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/octave.pdf] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/octave/build'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/octave/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Digging a little bit into the building process it turns out that the culprit
is when building the file octave.dvi:

TEXINPUTS="../build-aux:$TEXINPUTS"         MAKEINFO='/bin/bash
/usr/local/src/octave/build-aux/missing makeinfo   -I doc/interpreter -I
../doc/interpreter'         texi2dvi --build-dir=doc/interpreter/octave.t2d -o
doc/interpreter/octave.dvi  `test -f 'doc/interpreter/octave.texi' || echo
'/usr/local/src/octave/build/../'`doc/interpreter/octave.texi

where I get

Please type another input file name:
/usr/local/src/octave/build/../doc/interpreter/octave.texi:930: I can't find
file `preface.texi'.

It works when building from within the original toplevel directory.





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