Re: How to compile e.g., tip in MXE

[John W. Eaton]

On 03/02/2013 05:05 PM, PhilipNienhuis wrote:

> I couldn't find how to invoke "make dist" from a just cloned hg repo. What
> do I need to do to get that far? AFAICS I'd need to bootstrap&  configure
> before a Makefile with "dist" target is present.

Yes, you have to configure and build everything before you can build the 
distribution tar file.  That's necessary because you have to build 
documentation files, and the figures for the documentation are created 
with Octave.  So you need

  ./bootstrap && ./configure && make all dist

> mv vectorize.texi-t vectorize.texi
> ../../run-octave -f -q -H -p
> /home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe/mxe-octave/tmp-octave/octave-3.7.2d/doc/interpreter
> --eval "geometryimages ('triplot', 'eps');"
> /home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe/mxe-octave/tmp-octave/octave-3.7.2d/.build/libtool:
> line 10095:
> /home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe/mxe-octave/tmp-octave/octave-3.7.2d/.build/src/octave:
> No such file or directory

You are cross compiling Octave, so you are not expected to be able to 
run Octave to build the documentation.  It works with a proper tarball 
release file because the documentation in those files is already built. 
 If you modify something that forces the figures in the documentation 
to be rebuilt, then you need to build with --disable-docs.

jwe