Re: Error building version

[Catalin Codreanu]

That solved it ! Now I can get on with testing the French translation !

Thanks a lot,

Cat

2013/6/25 Ben Abbott <address@hidden>

On Jun 25, 2013, at 9:00 PM, Catalin Codreanu wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a problem building the latest tip of the development version :
>
> changeset:   16845:9d1d8bdd71de
> tag:         tip
> user:        Rik <address@hidden>
> date:        Mon Jun 24 20:47:34 2013 -0700
> summary:     NEWS: Add new functions to list for 3.8 release.
>
> [ Make -j2 ] errored out with the following message :
>
> make[3] : on entre dans le répertoire « /home/catalin/workspace/octave/MY_BUILD/doc/interpreter »
> TEXINPUTS="../../../doc/interpreter/..:$TEXINPUTS" \
> dvips  -o octave.ps octave.dvi
> This is dvips(k) 5.993 Copyright 2013 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2013.06.25:0932' -> octave.ps
> dvips: ! Couldn't find header file: groff.enc
> make[3]: *** [octave.ps] Erreur 1
> make[3] : on quitte le répertoire « /home/catalin/workspace/octave/MY_BUILD/doc/interpreter »
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
> make[2] : on quitte le répertoire « /home/catalin/workspace/octave/MY_BUILD/doc »
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
> make[1] : on quitte le répertoire « /home/catalin/workspace/octave/MY_BUILD »
> make: *** [all] Erreur 2
>
> I already built octave last week so maybe something new was added to the build system but I can't figure out what's wrong.
>
> I did a "hg pull; hg update; bootstrap"
> and I'm building in a subfolder : "cd MY_BUILD"
> "../configure ; make -j2"
>
> Can anyone give me some clues why is "groff.enc" missing ?
>
> Thanks,
> Cat

Did you modify your TeX/LaTeX installation in the last week?  Others have also encountered this problem.

        https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2013-April/033125.html

You need to install the texlive-metapost metapost package.

Ben