Re: docs not building

[John W. Eaton]

On 07/08/2015 05:58 AM, Michael Godfrey wrote:

> This did fix the doc/refcard problem, but the same construct fails for
> make check.
> I get:
> make  check-local
> make[3]: Entering directory '/home/godfrey/d/src/octave/hg/octave'
> ./doc/interpreter/config-images.sh .
> ./doc/interpreter/images.mk is unchanged
> cd test && ../run-octave  --norc --silent --no-history ./test/fntests.m
> ./test
> error: no such file,
> '/home/godfrey/d/src/octave/hg/octave/test/test/fntests.m'
> error: source: error sourcing file
> '/home/godfrey/d/src/octave/hg/octave/test/test/fntests.m'
> Makefile:4649: recipe for target 'check-local' failed
> make[3]: *** [check-local] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/godfrey/d/src/octave/hg/octave'
> Makefile:3420: recipe for target 'check-am' failed
> make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/godfrey/d/src/octave/hg/octave'
> Makefile:3129: recipe for target 'check-recursive' failed
> make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/godfrey/d/src/octave/hg/octave'
> Makefile:3422: recipe for target 'check' failed
> make: *** [check] Error 2
> ===============================
> As I mentioned before, removing the cd test && . fixes this.  It does
> appear that there
> is a difference in how make is handling cd commands. This has always
> (for me) been
> a bit obscure. I have to reread the make doc whenever I use cd in a
> makefile.

OK, I'm out of time right now, but I'll take a look at this later today.

> Are you using a make different from GNU Make 4.0?

I'm using

GNU Make 4.0
Built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

on a Debian system.

> By the way, your changes have made one improvement (at least): before
> make clean
> make
> did not rebuild the doc/ files. Now it does.

OK.

Also, a general comment:  I'm sure there are going to be some glitches 
as I make these changes.  Sorry about that.  But ultimately, we should 
be able to better express all dependencies accurately and hopefully 
improve the overall build, especially when doing parallel builds.

jwe