Re: make failed

[Ben Abbott]

> On Jun 30, 2016, at 07:59, Ernst Reissner <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 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?

epstool is not used when building. I think the error is ...

TEXI2DVI doc/interpreter/octave.dvi
/usr/bin/texi2dvi: etex exited with bad status, quitting.

You may get additional info by trying 

cd ../doc/interpreter
texi2dvi octave.texi

Ben