Re: 'make distcheck' passing

[c.]

On 3 Nov 2013, at 07:41, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:

> 11/2/13
> 
> At least on a Linux system the build system can successfully create release
> candidates.  There is still a problem with some of the images in the manual
> that have legends.  But, I think it would not hurt to start trying to build
> a release candidate through MXE-Octave; This is bound to expose more issues.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rik

(cd scripts && make  top_distdir=../octave-3.7.7+ 
distdir=../octave-3.7.7+/scripts \
     am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=: distdir)
make  \
          top_distdir="../octave-3.7.7+" distdir="../octave-3.7.7+/scripts" \
          dist-hook
Packaging distribution requires Java.

why is it required?

c.