Re: help broken in 3.8.0 ? Missing macros.texi

[JFC]

On 12/31/13 1:33 PM, c. wrote:
> On 31 Dec 2013, at 13:07, JFCardoso <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > congrats on the 3.8.0 release!
> > I just managed to install it on OSX 10.6.8.
> > But the help is broken here because the macros.texi file
> > is not copied where it should by make install :
> > the directory share/octave/3.8.0/etc/ only contains CITATION, NEWS and test/
> > Let me know if more details are needed for debugging this.
> > Best, JFC
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't see this behaviour with Octave 3.8.0 on OSX 10.9.1:
>
> ls /usr/local/octave/3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/etc/
> CITATION                built-in-docstrings     doc-cache               tests
> NEWS                    default-qt-settings     macros.texi


Hmmm.  Note that the help works when I test the build ./run-octave so the texi
file is the build tree at the right place, but is not properly copied in the
install directory during the install.

The relevant message at install time is:

 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 NEWS CITATION 
'/Users/mylogin/octave/octave-3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/etc'

and indeed the octetc_DATA variable in the Makefile is defined as

octetc_DATA = \
  NEWS \
  CITATION

and apparently left at that.


Could the problem be an unintended side effect of passing
the switch --disable-docs to configure ?

Best, JF