Re: help broken in 3.8.0 ? Missing macros.texi

[Carlo de Falco]

Il 31/dic/2013 15:10 "JFC" <address@hidden> ha scritto:
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> On 12/31/13 1:33 PM, c. wrote:
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>> On 31 Dec 2013, at 13:07, JFCardoso <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>
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>> Hi,
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>> I don't see this behaviour with Octave 3.8.0 on OSX 10.9.1:
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>> 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
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> 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.
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> The relevant message at install time is:
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>  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 NEWS CITATION '/Users/mylogin/octave/octave-3.8.0/share/octave/3.8.0/etc'
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> and indeed the octetc_DATA variable in the Makefile is defined as
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> octetc_DATA = \
>   NEWS \
>   CITATION
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> and apparently left at that.
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>
> Could the problem be an unintended side effect of passing
> the switch --disable-docs to configure ?
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> Best, JF
>
  That is not unintended if you disable docs you get no help.
c.