Re: [cygwin] Compile success, except for doc

[Rik]

On 12/01/2013 12:36 AM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 01:17:01 -0600
> From: Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden>
> To: marco atzeri <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [cygwin] Compile success, except for doc
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> On 11/30/2013 07:38 AM, marco atzeri wrote:
>> > Il 11/30/2013 11:53 AM, CdeMills ha scritto:
>>> >> Hello,
>>> >>
>>> >> having installed the gl2ps package (thanks Marco), octave stable with GUI
>>> >> compile up to the point where doc is generated, the script 'run-octave'
>>> >> failing. The executable is built and can be installed; generating
>>> >> graphics
>>> >> files from plots is working.
>>> >>
>>> >> I did a './run-octave -strace' to try to debug the problem, I was not
>>> >> able
>>> >> to find the issue from the 'octave.trace' file. Can someone have a
>>> >> look at
>>> >> it to try to understand the issue
>>> >>
>>> >> Regards
>>> >>
>>> >> Pascal
>> >
>> > Hi Pascal,
>> > I suggest you to not build the documention
>> >
>> > so configure with "--disable-docs"
>> >
>> > There are at least two cygwin issues that make building the
>> > doc very tricky:
>> >
>> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-10/msg00456.html
>> > and
>> > http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures
>> >
>> > they are cygwin specific pains and no simple workaround
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Marco
> It isn't just cygwin that is having problems.  Here's from a fresh build 
> on a linux machine:
>
> (octave/octave/build-gui-14/doc/interpreter/plot.texi
> Chapter 15 [260]
> (plot.eps
> octave/octave/build-gui-14/doc/interpreter/plot.texi:98: Could n
> ot open file plot.eps, ignoring it.
> @epsfgetbb ...Could not open file #1, ignoring it}
>                                                    @else address@hidden 
> @other = 1...
>
> @next #1->@epsfgetbb {#1}
>                           @epsfsetgraph {#1}
> @imagexxx ...ysize address@hidden @fi @epsfbox {#1.eps}
>                                                    @fi @ifimagevmode 
> @medskip...
>
> @image ...true @fi @else @imagexxx #1,,,,,@finish
>                                                    @fi
> <argument> @hfil @ignorespaces @image {plot,4in}
>                                                  @unskip @hfil
> @next #1->@line address@hidden @leftskip #1
>                                     @kern @rightskip }
> l.98 @center @image{plot,4in}
>
> ?
>
> Documentation hasn't built right from around the time that FLTK became 
> the default graphics engine, or at least that is my recollection.  The 
> good thing is that it's just missing figures so one can just hold down 
> the Enter key.

Build works fine for me on a Linux host.  The documentation is still built
with gnuplot, not the FLTK toolkit.  Is gnuplot installed and working on
the Cygwin host?

--Rik