Re: building docs

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 12/02/2013 08:56 AM, Rik wrote:
> On 12/01/2013 08:59 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On 12/01/2013 11:56 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> >
> > > The option --no-gui-libs is also needed along with --no-gui.
> >
> > If you use --no-gui-libs, then you don't need --no-gui.
> >
> > jwe
> Back to the original question, is there really a problem building docs on
> Linux with the current default branch?

I say "yes", unless something has changed in the last couple days since 
I tried a fresh build.  The issue is that to generate the EPS files 
requires executing ./run-octave.  Currently it appears that running 
octave attempts to start the GUI even if in batch mode.

This works fine if the system is able to run the GUI, but if the system 
is unable to start Qt the attempts to generate the EPS figures fail. 
The scenario I'm thinking of is if someone logs onto a machine remotely 
and runs the build process.

In some sense I've no qualms with ./run-octave attempting to load the 
GUI libraries.  The issue is that the build process requires actively 
functioning Qt to complete.  If those commands generating EPS files 
using gnuplot graphics engine just used "--no-gui-libs", that wouldn't 
be the case.

This wasn't an issue a few months back.  This weekend I'll search for 
the changeset where this might have changed.

Dan