IRIX compiles with some problems

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Oct-1999, Ben Sapp <address@hidden> wrote:

| I compiled 2.1.18 in the following environment
| 
| uname -a -R 
| IRIX64 boondaq 6.5 6.5.2f 11051212 IP27
| 
| gcc -v
| Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.5/2.95.1/specs
| gcc version 2.95.1 19990816 (release)
| 
| c++ -v 
| Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/mips-sgi-irix6.5/2.95.1/specs
| gcc version 2.95.1 19990816 (release)
| 
| makeinfo --version 
| This is GNU Makeinfo version 1.64, from texinfo-3.7.
| 
| I compiled with static and shared libraries.  The only problem I
| encountered was in creating the manual.  Here is what the errors from
| gmake were:
| 
| gmake[3]: *** No rule to make target `munge-texi', needed by
| `octave.texi'.
| gmake[3]: *** No rule to make target `octave.texi', needed by
| `octave.dvi'.
| gmake[3]: *** No rule to make target `arith.texi', needed by
| `octave.dvi'.

This should be fixed in 2.1.19.  The problem was a missing file or
two.  I think I've got them all in the tar file now.

Thanks,

jwe