Re: Trouble building octave all the way ... help?

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
>From: Eric Addison 
>To: Octave-maintainers
>Date: 2016/7/5, Tue 07:42
>Subject: Trouble building octave all the way ... help?
> 
>
>Hello maintainers,
>
>
>I am working on some missing image functionality, but I'm having trouble 
>getting octave to build completely. It builds enough to run and for me to 
>start editing core code, but I can't build the image package because of an 
>issue with mkoctfile:
>
>
>error: mkoctfile: unable to find the mkoctfile command, Octave installation is 
>incomplete
>
>
>
>Whenever I make octave, I get an error with the following message:
>
>
>  GEN      doc/interpreter/voronoi.eps
>error: __osmesa_print__: Depth and stencil doesn't match, are you sure you are 
>using OSMesa >= 9.0?
>error: called from
>    __opengl_print__ at line 172 column 7
>    print at line 431 column 14
>    geometryimages at line 55 column 5
>make[2]: *** [doc/interpreter/voronoi.eps] Error 1
>make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/eric/octave_dev/octave'
>make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/eric/octave_dev/octave'
>make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
>I know this is a known issue, and I've tried the suggestions at 
>http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44249 but so far have had no luck. If anyone is 
>willing to help me out getting octave to build completely, I'd really 
>appreciate it.
>
>
>Thanks a lot!
>
>
>Eric


1. build osmesa from source following instruction:
http://wiki.octave.org/OSMesa


or 

2. If you do not need to build documents, skip building document step
by configure with a --disable-docs option.

HTH

Tatsuro