[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44782] Problem in building MXE-Octave

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #44782 (project octave):

I think the problem is caused by timestamps on figure files being out of order
somehow in the doc directory.  Since those figures are created by running
Octave it fails because you are cross compiling and there is no provision in
the build system for running a version of Octave other than the one that was
just built (which doesn't work, because you are cross compiling).

A workaround is to clean out the doc directory, including the generated
figures, before running "make dist" to create the octave-VERSION.tar.gz file.

If someone wants to work on a fix, maybe it would be possible to either play
with timestamps so that the generated files all have timestamps that are newer
than the source files or force the figures to be rebuilt from scratch when
running the dist target for Octave.

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