make failed

[Ernst Reissner]

Hi all,

I tried to build octave as described in
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/tip/etc/HACKING

Question: I ran ./bootstrap but apparently, this did not change anything
in octave,
as hg st or hg diff shows.
What does the script do?

Then I ran

mkdir .build
cd .build
../configure
make

Configure succeeded but make failed:


warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
Some output formats are not available.
warning: called from
    __print_parse_opts__ at line 382 column 9
    print at line 313 column 8
    splineimages at line 157 column 5
  TEXI2DVI doc/interpreter/octave.dvi
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: etex exited with bad status, quitting.
Makefile:27424: recipe for target 'doc/interpreter/octave.dvi' failed
make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/octave.dvi] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/ernst/Octave/octave/.build'
Makefile:25965: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/ernst/Octave/octave/.build'
Makefile:9802: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
address@hidden:~/Octave/octave/.build>


I know, this is a little problem only but still, unsatisfactory.
Who can help?


Greetings,

Ernst