Re: [cygwin] Compile success, except for doc

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 11/30/2013 07:38 AM, marco atzeri wrote:
> Il 11/30/2013 11:53 AM, CdeMills ha scritto:
> > Hello,
> >
> > having installed the gl2ps package (thanks Marco), octave stable with GUI
> > compile up to the point where doc is generated, the script 'run-octave'
> > failing. The executable is built and can be installed; generating
> > graphics
> > files from plots is working.
> >
> > I did a './run-octave -strace' to try to debug the problem, I was not
> > able
> > to find the issue from the 'octave.trace' file. Can someone have a
> > look at
> > it to try to understand the issue
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Pascal
>
> Hi Pascal,
> I suggest you to not build the documention
>
> so configure with "--disable-docs"
>
> There are at least two cygwin issues that make building the
> doc very tricky:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-10/msg00456.html
> and
> http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures
>
> they are cygwin specific pains and no simple workaround
>
> Regards
> Marco

It isn't just cygwin that is having problems.  Here's from a fresh build 
on a linux machine:

(octave/octave/build-gui-14/doc/interpreter/plot.texi
Chapter 15 [260]
(plot.eps
octave/octave/build-gui-14/doc/interpreter/plot.texi:98: Could n
ot open file plot.eps, ignoring it.
@epsfgetbb ...Could not open file #1, ignoring it}
                                                  @else address@hidden 
@other = 1...

@next #1->@epsfgetbb {#1}
                         @epsfsetgraph {#1}
@imagexxx ...ysize address@hidden @fi @epsfbox {#1.eps}
                                                  @fi @ifimagevmode 
@medskip...

@image ...true @fi @else @imagexxx #1,,,,,@finish
                                                  @fi
<argument> @hfil @ignorespaces @image {plot,4in}
                                                @unskip @hfil
@next #1->@line address@hidden @leftskip #1
                                   @kern @rightskip }
l.98 @center @image{plot,4in}

?

Documentation hasn't built right from around the time that FLTK became 
the default graphics engine, or at least that is my recollection.  The 
good thing is that it's just missing figures so one can just hold down 
the Enter key.

Dan