Re: How to disable pdf generation but keep function help

[John W. Eaton]

On 08/04/2016 02:09 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

> I believe jwe has made some changes recently to ensure that only things
> that depend on TeX are disabled with --disable-docs. I think this means
> that you will still get all builtin help functions and the lookfor cache
> created and installed even with --disable-docs, so maybe that option is
> safer to use now (with default → 4.2).

Yes, that's the intent.

The name --disable-docs is somewhat misleading now.  It is really 
intended to only disable the parts that require TeX  (PDF and DVI 
output).  But to generate the doc-cache file and to have formatted 
docstrings at the Octave command line, you still need to have makeinfo 
(from the texinfo package) installed.  But that should not require TeX.

Even with --disable-docs, it should still be possible to build the HTML 
files, but I'm not sure the rules are correct for that yet.

jwe