Re: [mxe-octave] dev branch: build failure in documentation stage? (was Re: [mxe-octave] dev branch: build failure in install stage?)

[Philip Nienhuis]

Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > Tatsuro, when you made the archive, did you use the 'make dist' target?
>
> > Or did you just tar up the contents of the hg working directory after
> > running bootstrap? The proper steps to create a source tarball are
> >
> >    ./bootstrap && ./configure && make all && make dist

@Mike: all in one directory? I usually make dist archives in a separate 
build dir as well.

<snip>

> I did the above.
> After "make dist", octave-4.1.0+.tar.gz was generated in build directory.
>
> The archived file contained the documentation.
>
> Then I executed mxe-octave using this octave-4.1.0+.tar.gz.
> make zip-dist
>
> Build of default-octave step was stopped.
>
> /bin/bash run-octave --norc --silent --no-history 
> /home/tatsuro/work/octave/mxe-octave/mxe-octave-dev-w64/tmp-default-octave/octave-4.1.0+/doc/interpreter/mk_doc_cache.m
>  - 
> /home/tatsuro/work/octave/mxe-octave/mxe-octave-dev-w64/tmp-default-octave/octave-4.1.0+ 
> /home/tatsuro/work/octave/mxe-octave/mxe-octave-dev-w64/tmp-default-octave/octave-4.1.0+/doc/interpreter/macros.texi
>  libinterp/DOCSTRINGS scripts/DOCSTRINGS > doc/interpreter/doc-cache-t && \
> mv doc/interpreter/doc-cache-t doc/interpreter/doc-cache
> /home/tatsuro/work/octave/mxe-octave/mxe-octave-dev-w64/tmp-default-octave/octave-4.1.0+/.build/libtool:
>  line 11645: 
> /home/tatsuro/work/octave/mxe-octave/mxe-octave-dev-w64/tmp-default-octave/octave-4.1.0+/.build/src/octave:
>  No such file or directory
> make[4]: *** [doc/interpreter/doc-cache] Error 127
> make[4]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/tatsuro/work/octave/mxe-octave/mxe-octave-dev-w64/tmp-default-octave/octave-4.1.0+/.build'
> make[3]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/tatsuro/work/octave/mxe-octave/mxe-octave-dev-w64/tmp-default-octave/octave-4.1.0+/.build'
> make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/tatsuro/work/octave/mxe-octave/mxe-octave-dev-w64/tmp-default-octave/octave-4.1.0+/.build'
> make[1]: *** [build-only-default-octave] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/tatsuro/work/octave/mxe-octave/mxe-octave-dev-w64'
>
> As you said, run-octave is meaningless because this is cross-build.
>
> How can I do ?

Tatsuro,

Yesterday I successfully built dev Octave tip with mxe, incl. docs.

One thing that I found is that on the Linux side it is seems more 
reliable for subsequent mxe-octave cross-builds, to make a complete 
Linux build in one step.
I.e., not having a build, pulling/updating the source tree and then do 
an incremental "make".
Rather wipe the entire build dir and then do configure && make before 
making a dist archive (make all dist).
configure && make in an existing build dir doesn't *seem* to be 
sufficient - at least for me.

(slightly OT
Next thing for me is that once in Windows, Octave can't find its docs 
(the docs pane mentions "the info file or compressed version does not 
exist".
The Start Menu shortcuts to the html and pdf files do work fine, 
however. Where are those info or compressed files to be found?)

Philip